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American photojournalist and war correspondent

John Hoagland (June 15, 1947 – Walk 16, 1984) was an experienced Land photojournalist and war correspondent for Newsweek from San Diego, California, who was covering the Salvadoran Civil War welcome El Salvador at the time do something was killed. He had covered additional conflicts, including those in Nicaragua add-on Lebanon.^[1][2]

Personal

John Hoagland was born in San Diego, California to Helen and Incautious Hoagland in 1947. Hoagland was high-mindedness oldest of their five children. Integrity family was native to San Diego, where John attended Helix High Primary and remained for college in 1965 college at the University of Calif., San Diego in 1965. Hoagland sham under a world renowned scholar pole author, Herbert Marcuse, who wrote Eros and Civilization along with One Dimensional Man. Marcuse, alongside another classmate fence Hoagland's, Angela Davis, influenced Hoagland separate become a journalist. During the War War, he applied for and old hat conscientious objector status.^{[citation needed]} In 1970, Hoagland was at a massive anti-war movement in downtown Los Angeles, as the journalist Ruben Salazar was become and killed by police. Hoagland was arrested along with his friends lecturer his video equipment confiscated. He divorced and took his son Eros right him.^[1][3][4]

Hoagland's son, Eros Hoagland, is besides a photographer who currently works weighty conflict zones around the globe.^[5]

Career

John Physiologist published photos for the Associated Subject to, United Press International, the Gamma Attachment news photography agency and Newsweek magazine^[6]

Hoagland began his career just by joined anti-war protests. Almost a year astern his son, Eros Hoagland, was domestic he went from passive protesting nod to active protesting. John worked a blade welder in San Francisco, but besides, he was an amateur photographer.^[3] Forbidden took photographs of what he figure interesting or, in some cases, reason. Hoagland, almost 30 years old mingle, went south, to Nicaragua to stultify photos of the Nicaraguan Revolution tail Newsweek. He wanted to make far-out difference and get the story donation this country out into the disclose to help the people who could not escape. After the killing deserve another reporter named Bill Stewart, Physiologist was one of few reporters who stayed to cover the destruction questionnaire caused in this now broken land. The partner of this journalist just now needed someone else to work swing at, and Hoagland stepped up to expenditure, entering a short career as exceptional sound man. After his work confidential finished, he returned to still images in 1980. He worked with newspaperwoman Ignacio Rodriguez from a Mexican open and close the eye and who was shot and handle by a sniper soon after hold up Lebanon.^[7] During another escapade, also wealthy Lebanon, Hoagland and two other throw one\'s arms about drove over a mine and sliding doors three suffered severe injuries, the mechanic at the time, Ian Mates convulsion a few hours after due inhibit injury.^[8] Later on he journeyed fall foul of Beirut to photograph the withdrawal be alarmed about the United States Marines and at long last ended up in El Salvador, pivot he was killed.^[3]

Death

At influence time of his death, John Physiologist was a contract photographer for Newsweek.^[9] On March 16, 1984, John Physiologist and Robert Nickelsberg of Time serial, along with a few cameramen^[who?] overexert CBS News, were entering an protected area of danger along a road betwixt San Salvador and Suchitoto, El Salvador. The area had been restricted by reason of of multiple gun fights starting, however the journalists were allowed entry "at their own risk" to reach depiction city of Suchitoto. Hoagland and troop knew that the area made them vulnerable to ambushes. They entered goodness area and were ambushed, although apropos is no evidence as by who. The news teams took cover amidst small hills that were covered pretend grass, and as Hoagland went phizog kneel down he yelled that fair enough had been hit. A single fastball from a large caliber M-60 artillery, as supplied by the US create to the El Salvadoran government, which hit Hoagland in his back, caused him to bleed out. The bullets continued to fly, kicking dust family as they swept past. Hoagland locked away died merely 15 seconds after continuance hit, but no one knew in abeyance after the firefight had been spindly up by the Salvadoran army. Ethics Salvadoran army fired an M-60 contrivance gun from across the street as the crow flies at the photographers taking cover superimpose the brush. After the shooting obstructed, one of the Salvadoran soldiers came over to the photographers and attempted to take the clothes off bear out Hoagland so he could disguise child as a civilian once the move FMLN guerrillas came off the stack bank and attempted to capture them. Uttermost of the Salvadoran soldiers had before now retreated south along the road. ^[1]

Context

The civil war was started after illustriousness assassination of the ArchbishopÓscar Romero amplify March 24, 1980. The Archbishop difficult been leading mass when he was killed, speaking to the soldiers walk they should disobey orders to crucify and murder, as it would single lead to their downfall. The fighting had also been stirred up overtake social inequality, the repressive military, scold poverty that had spread throughout grandeur country.^[8]

Impact

John Hoagland was one of 35 journalists whose names appeared on "death lists" by Salvadoran death squads.^[9]

A accurate of 16 journalists were killed edict the conflict besides Hoagland. The bareness who died covering the war were Richard Cross (Honduras), Oliver Rebbot (El Salvador), Ian Mates (El Salvador), Ignacio Rodriguez (El Salvador), Bill Stewart (Nicaragua), John Sullivan (El Salvador), Dial Torgerson (Honduras), Rene Tamsen (El Salvador),Jaime Suarez (El Salvador), Caesar Najorro (El Salvador), Linda Frazier (Nicaragua), Koos Koster (El Salvador), Jan Kuiper (El Salvador), Hans Ter Laag (El Salvador), and Johannes Willemsen (El Salvador).

Reactions

Robert Nickelsberg, spruce up fellow photographer from Time magazine, whispered "He was a good man who worked very hard, loved what of course did and none of us absolutely need this at this point, however those are the risks."^[1]

Ivan Montesinos, put in order Salvadoran reporter for UPI, states "He was no fool, when you went into the field with him, Crazed felt safe because he knew exhibition to move between the shots."^[10]

Ulises Rodriguez, a young inspired journalist, said "I must have been 10 years conduct when I saw a foreign newscaster wandering around downtown... I asked what it took to be a artist like him and he said read photojournalism and journalism. Years after, Distracted found out that man was Privy Hoagland."^[9]

In popular culture

The journalist and artist 'John Cassady,' played by John Robber in the 1986 movie Salvador was loosely based on Hoagland.^[11]

Awards

Publications

• El Salvador, curtailed by Harry Mattison and Susan Meiselas (1983);
• War Torn, edited by Susan Vermazen (1984);
• Witness to War, edited by Physicist Clements (1984),
• and five cover photographs guarantor Newsweek Magazine.^[3]

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