Stamp for a Chicano Icon

The Los Angeles Times and Hoy L.A. will celebrate the commemoration of Ruben Salazar Day in Los Angeles and the April 22nd issuance of the U.S. Postal stamp honoring the slain Chicano journalist.

The Times' Downtown Globe Lobby will be the site of a photography and memorabilia exhibition being unveiled on April 22, and will be open to the public until the 24th.

LOA reports that City Council President Eric Garcetti will carry a motion the morning of April 18th  to declare April 22 Ruben Salazar Day.
 

On August 29, 1970, at age 42, the LAT and KMEX reporter was shot in the head and killed by a tear gas canister fired by a deputy sheriff during the Chicano Moratorium March protesting the Vietnam War. Outside the Silver Dollar Cafe, where Salazar was struck, was Cal State Northridge Professor Raul Ruiz and his camera.

Previous VFaL [Stamp to be issued]

Ruben Salazar, from the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429), Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA