His main source for the article was the civil-rights attorney Oscar Zeta Acosta, a close friend. Thompson, thirty-three at the time, flew to California to write about the murder of Ruben Salazar, a prominent Mexican-American journalist who’d died at the hands of a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy in East Los Angeles. Note from the author: Fifty years ago this spring, Hunter S. April 25 marks the 50th anniversary of HST’s second trip to Vegas, which would help make up the basis for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism. ![]() ![]() HST author Timothy Denevi remembers the trip that put Fear and Loathing on the map.Įditor’s note: Below you’ll find a chapter from Timothy Denevi’s 2018 book Freak Kingdom: Hunter S.
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