Mapping Truth: Following the Paper Trail in the Murder of Ruben Salazar

Please join us for a commemorative event in honor of the beloved journalist Ruben Salazar, slain 42 years ago at the Chicano Moratorium on August 20, 1970. The event will include a photo exhibit from the personal collection of Dr. Raúl Ruíz, who will discuss his eyewitness account of that day's events. In addition, CSRC will launch its newest digital collection of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Investigative Files into Mr. Salazar's homicide on the UCLA Digital Library server.

Dr. Raúl Ruíz is a professor of Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge. As a journalist activist in the 1960s and 70s he documented the Chicano Movement’s most seminal events and created many of its most iconic images. From the student walkouts to the anti-war marches, Dr. Ruíz used photography and advocacy journalism to bring attention to La Causa Chicana. His forthcoming book, Silver Dollar Death: The Murder of Ruben Salazar asks the question: “Why did Ruben Salazar, an American newsman, husband and father have to die covering a domestic news story?”