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Sep 25, 2007 4:41 pm US/Pacific
Stamp To Honor Late Journalist Ruben Salazar
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
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Salazar was a Los Angeles Times reporter who covered the Vietnam War and became news director for the Spanish-language television station KMEX.
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Journalist Ruben Salazar -- who was killed during an anti-Vietnam War riot in Los Angeles in 1970 -- is being honored with a postage stamp.
The postmaster general says it will be among five stamps honoring U.S. journalists to be unveiled Oct. 5.
Salazar was a Los Angeles Times reporter who covered the Vietnam War and became news director for the Spanish-language television station KMEX.
He was 42 when he was killed by a tear gas projectile fired by a sheriff's deputy while covering anti-war rioting in East Los Angeles on Aug. 29, 1970.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Salazar "put an indelible stamp on the profession of journalism in Los Angeles."
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