![]() ![]() ![]() So, Thompson instead offered it to Rolling Stone, whose editor, Jann Wenner, scheduled it to run in two parts in future issues. What was supposed to be a 250-word caption instead became a 2,500-word screed on the death of the American dream. Sports Illustrated “aggressively rejected” (Thompson’s words) what he submitted as his race coverage. Sports Illustrated had hired Thompson to cover the Mint 400, an off-road vehicle race around undeveloped parts of North Las Vegas from March 21-23, 1971. After a week or so of asking tough questions around LA, Thompson grew scared.įiguring he might be next, he whisked his main source for the story, attorney Oscar Zeta Acosta, off to Las Vegas to interview him there. In real life, Thompson was assigned by Rolling Stone magazine to write an exposé on civil rights activist and Los Angeles Times columnist Ruben Salazar, whom LA County Sheriff’s officers “accidentally” shot and killed with a tear gas grenade fired at close range during a Vietnam War protest in 1970. ![]()
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