Raul Ruiz, journalist and activist for the Chicano movement in LA, dies at 78
LOS ANGELES - When Raul Ruiz took to the podium last year at Self-Help Graphics for a history symposium, many in the packed house were at first perplexed.
The longtime reporter, activist and professor was there to talk about his role in the Chicano moratorium, the 1970 anti-war march in East Los Angeles that ended with law enforcement indiscriminately assaulting protesters and killing former Los Angeles Times columnist Ruben Salazar. Ruiz's gripping photo of a sheriff's deputy firing a tear-gas canister into the bar that
