List of journalists killed in the United States
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List of journalists killed in the United States

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Date	Name	Employer	Location	Notes

November 7, 1837	Elijah Parish Lovejoy	Alton Observer	Alton, Illinois	This abolition editor was killed by a mob supporting slavery in the Union.

June 6, 1843	James Hagan	Vicksburg Sentinel	Vicksburg, Mississippi	Hagan was killed in a duel by Daniel Weisiger Adams-the son of a man he had criticized in his newspaper.

February 29, 1844	James A. Ryan	Vicksburg Sentinel	Vicksburg, Mississippi	The Vicksburg Sentinel was a Democratic paper and Ryan was killed by his rival Whig counterpart in a duel on their second fight.

September 15, 1848	John Jenkins	Vicksburg Sentinel	Vicksburg, Mississippi	Killed in a fight with an attorney after the two had a previous altercation.

June 22, 1854	Joseph Mansfield	San Joaquin Republican	Stockton, California	Mansfield was killed in a fight with a rival editor, both of whom were Democrats.

May 20, 1856	James King of William	Daily Evening Bulletin	San Francisco, California

April 6, 1862	Irving W. Carson	New-York Tribune	Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee	First journalist to be killed during the U.S. Civil War.

June 23, 1863	Lynde Walter Buckingham	New York Herald	Aldie, Virginia	Killed as a result of an ambush during the U.S. Civil War.

October 6, 1863	James O'Neal	Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper	Baxter Springs, Kansas	O'Neal was an artist-correspondent murdered by Quantrill's guerrillas at the Baxter Springs Massacre.

May 6, 1864	Samuel Fiske (aka Dunn Browne)	Springfield Republican	Fredericksburg, Virginia	Capt. Fiske wrote under the name Dunn Browne and served in the army and was mortally wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness.

September 14, 1866	Ridgeway Glover	Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper	Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming	While covering the American Indian Wars, Glover was killed and mutilated during the construction of Fort Kearny in 1866.

November 5, 1871	Frederick Wadsworth Loring	Appleton's Journal	Wickenburg, Arizona	Was killed while on assignment out west in what is known as the Wickenburg Massacre, an attack on a stagecoach by Native Americans.

June 25, 1876	Mark Kellogg	Associated Press	Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana	The first Associated Press journalist to die while reporting.

March 27, 1877	J. Clarke Swayze	Topeka Daily Blade	Topeka, Kansas	Swayze was killed after publishing a critical article about his murderer.

April 23, 1880	Charles de Young	The Daily Dramatic Chronicle	San Francisco, California	With his brother M. H.

November 17, 1881	A. B. Thornton	Boonville News	Boonville, Missouri	The town marshal killed Thornton because of criticism from the newspaper and won acquittal based on the perception that the criticism was too intense.

March 27, 1884	Charles L. Kusz	The Gringo and Greaser	Manzano, New Mexico	Shot through his window by unknown gunman on horses. His newspaper was reform oriented and created enemies as it sought changes.

May 5, 1887	Roderick D. Gambrell	The Shield and Sword	Jackson, Mississippi	Shot by Colonel Jones S. Hamilton for publishing allegations of corrupt business practices Hamilton was engaged in with the state of Mississippi.

May 1, 1888	John H. Martin	New Mississippian	Jackson, Mississippi	Shot in a street encounter with ex-Confederate General Wirt Adams, who was also shot and killed by Martin. Martin published numerous attacks on Adams's character in part due to his association with Colonel Hamilton, killer of the aforementioned Roderick D.

February 1, 1891	Ignacio Martínez	El Mundo	Laredo, Texas	Owned a newspaper that wrote critical articles on the regime of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz. His murderers fled to Mexico and were never arrested.

February 23, 1891	Albert C. Osborne	Sunday World	Columbus, Ohio	Killed in a shootout with William J. Elliott, a rival editor of the Sunday Capital, and Elliott's brother, Patrick.

April 1, 1898	William Cowper Brann	Iconoclast	Waco, Texas	Wrote critical articles about Baptists. Shot in the back during a duel.

January 15, 1903	Narciso Gener Gonzales	The State	Columbia, South Carolina	He was killed by James H. Tillman, the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, who was acquitted of murder by a jury.

November 9, 1908	Edward W. Carmack	Nashville American	Nashville, Tennessee	Former congressman and senator. He was killed by a former army officer who disapproved of his name appearing in an article and threatened the editor.

December 25, 1915	Huang Yuanyong	Shao Nian Zhong Guo Weekly	San Francisco, California	The Chinese national was murdered while visiting the United States. The case remained unsolved but Kuomintang (KMT) supporters were suspected of carrying out the assassination at the Shanghai Low restaurant.

July 16, 1927	Don Mellett	Canton Daily News	Canton, Ohio	Shot to death in his garage as a result of a conspiracy with a crime boss and the police chief of Canton.

June 9, 1930	Jake Lingle	Chicago Tribune	Chicago, Illinois	Killed in gangland-style by associates of Al Capone. In addition to his job as a reporter, Lingle was on the payroll of Capone's criminal organization.

July 23, 1930	Jerry Buckley	WMBC-AM	Detroit, Michigan	Gunned down on election night.

September 6, 1934	Howard Guilford	The Saturday Press	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Editor of a newspaper that exposed corruption and organized crime. He and partner Jay Near won the US Supreme Court decision in Near v.

December 9, 1935	Walter Liggett	Midwest American	Minneapolis, Minnesota	He wrote about political corruption and organized crime.

January 11, 1943	Carlo Tresca	Il Martello (The Hammer)	New York City, New York	Radical socialist newspaper editor and labor activist; believed to have been killed by Mafia hitman.

January 22, 1945	Arthur Kasherman	Public Press (alternative)	Minneapolis, Minnesota	His death figured into Hubert Humphrey's mayoral victory.

July 29, 1949	W.H. "Bill" Mason	KBKI (AM)	Alice, Texas	Known as a crusading radio journalist in a county ruled with an iron hand by local law enforcement, Mason was shot dead by Sheriff deputy Sam Smithwick, who Mason had publicly accused of running a strip club.

September 30, 1962	Paul Guihard	Agence France-Presse	Oxford, Mississippi	Guihard was a British-French citizen who was killed during the civil rights era at the University of Mississippi. He was assigned to photograph the events surrounding James Meredith's attendance when he turned his focus on riots and in the confusion was shot.

August 29, 1970	Rubén Salazar	Los Angeles Times	Los Angeles, California	Salazar was killed by deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department while covering the Chicano Moratorium protest in East Los Angeles.

June 2, 1976	Don Bolles	Arizona Republic	Phoenix, Arizona	Murdered by a car bomb. Initially assumed to have been a mafia hit, three local men were later convicted of his death.

March 9, 1977	Maurice Williams	WHUR-FM	Washington, D.C.	He was murdered during the 1977 Hanafi Siege.

June 28, 1978	John A. Kelly	WHDH-TV	Boston, Massachusetts	Killed during the Blackfriars Massacre.

July 21, 1981	Duong Trong Lam	Cai Dinh Lang (The Village Temple)	San Francisco, California	Killed by gunfire from a member of one of two anti-communist groups that claimed responsibility for his assassination.

August 24, 1982	Nguyen Dam Phong	Tu Do (Freedom)	Houston, Texas	Was assassinated at his home by an anti-communist group.

June 19, 1984	Alan Berg	KOA (AM)	Denver, Colorado	A liberal radio show host who was murdered by a white nationalist group.

October 15, 1984	Henry Liu (a.k.a. Chiang Nan)	Freelancer and author	Daly City, California	A critic of the Kuomintang who was assassinated on the orders of the Kuomintang.

August 9, 1987	Tap Van Pham (a.k.a. Hoai Diep Tu)	Mai	Garden Grove, California	He was assassinated by arson while sleeping in his office by an anti-communist group that took responsibility.

November 22, 1989	Nhan Trong Do	Van Nghe Tien Phong	Fairfax County, Virginia	A layout designer who worked with Triet Le, he was the first employer of the Vietnamese-language magazine to be assassinated.

September 22, 1990	Triet Le	Van Nghe Tien Phong	Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia	A columnist of controversial content for the same Vietnamese magazine that employed Nhan Trong Do. Assassinated.

February 18, 1991	Jean-Claude Olivier	WLQY-AM (1320)	Little Haiti, Miami, Florida	A colleague of D'Or, he was known for his controversial commentary and was assassinated on his way to his car.

March 15, 1991	Fritz D'Or	WLQY-AM (1320)	Little Haiti, Miami, Florida	A colleague of Olivier's at WLQY, he was assassinated as he left a club.

March 11, 1992	Manuel de Dios Unanue	El Diario La Prensa	Queens, New York City, New York	Murdered by Colombian drug traffickers for writing about drug trade.

October 24, 1993	Dona St. Plite	WKAT	Little Haiti, Miami, Florida	St. Plite was attending a benefit for former colleague Fritz Dor when he was also assassinated for supporting Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

October 18, 2000	James Edwin Richards	Citizen journalist, editor and publisher	Venice, Los Angeles, California	Richards was murdered at his Oakwood neighborhood home in the neighborhood where he had established himself as a citizen crime reporter.

September 11, 2001	Bill Biggart	Freelance photographer	Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York	Killed while photographing the rescue effort outside the World Trade Center before the tower collapsed.

October 5, 2001	Robert Stevens	Sun	Boca Raton, Florida	Murdered as one of the media targets of the 2001 anthrax attacks less than a month after 9/11.

August 2, 2007	Chauncey Bailey	The Oakland Post	Oakland, California	After investigating corruption in his community, Bailey was murdered on his way to work by the target of his reporting.

August 26, 2015	Alison Parker	WDBJ 7	Moneta, Virginia	Parker, a reporter, and Ward, a photojournalist, were shot on live television by one-time colleague Vester Flanagan while interviewing a subject about tourism.

Adam Ward

June 28, 2018	Gerald Fischman	The Capital	Annapolis, Maryland	The five employees of The Capital were murdered during the Capital Gazette shooting in the newspaper's office. The suspect in the shooting, Jarrod Ramos, had held a grudge against the newspaper since it published a story about his guilty plea in a criminal harassment case in 2011.

Rob Hiaasen

John McNamara

Wendi Winters

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Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara and Wendi Winters were four reporters for The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland, who were killed in the United States on June 28, 2018 in a shooting at the newspaper's office.
On June 28, 2018, four journalists of The Capital, located in Annapolis, Maryland were killed in a shooting at the newspaper's office.
In the United States, four journalists of The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland were killed on June 28, 2018 in a shooting at the newspaper's office.

final_sentence: Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara and Wendi Winters were four reporters for The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland, who were killed in the United States on June 28, 2018 in a shooting at the newspaper's office.
final_sentence: On June 28, 2018, four journalists of The Capital, located in Annapolis, Maryland were killed in a shooting at the newspaper's office.
final_sentence: In the United States, four journalists of The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland were killed on June 28, 2018 in a shooting at the newspaper's office.