Salazar, Ruben

1928 - Born on the 3rd of March.

1929 - Immigrated to US.

1956-1957 - Salazar worked in Petaluma for The Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

1959 - He moved on to the San Francisco News and in accepted the opportunity to work for The Los Angeles Times.

         - On the 29th of August, he was covering the National Chicano Moratorium March, organized to protest the disproportionate number of Hispanic Americans killed in the Vietnam War.

1971 - He was posthumously awarded a special Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and after the controversy of his death had subsided, Laguna Park the site of the 1970 rally and subsequent police action - was renamed Salazar Park in his honour.

1999 - The California Chicano News Media Association established the annual Ruben Salazar Journalism Awards.