About John Hoagland
John Hoagland was an American photojournalist and war correspondent for Newsweek from San Diego, California, who was covering the Salvadoran Civil War in El Salvador at the time he was killed. He had covered other conflicts, including those in Nicaragua and Lebanon. John Hoagland (June 15, 1947 – March 16, 1984) was an American photojournalist and war correspondent for Newsweek from San Diego, California, who was covering the Salvadoran Civil War in El Salvador at the time he was killed. The family was native to San Diego, where John attended Helix High School and remained in 1965 at the University of California, San Diego. Marcuse, alongside another classmate of Hoagland's, Angela Davis, influenced Hoagland to become a journalist. In 1970, Hoagland was at a massive anti-war movement in downtown Los Angeles, when the journalist Ruben Salazar was shot and killed by police.
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