caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place imagesize field birth_date article_title name
the agronomist april 3 , 2000 haiti port-au-prince , haiti jean leopold dominique haiti port-au-prince , haiti 200px journalism , agronomy july 30 , 1930 jean dominique
 jean dominique
jean dominique

jean léopold dominique -lrb- july 30 , 1930 -- april 3 , 2000 -rrb- was a haitian journalist who spoke out against successive dictatorships .
he was one of the first people in haiti to broadcast in haitian creole , the language spoken by most of the populace .
despite fleeing the country twice when his life was under threat , he continued to return to his native haiti , firmly believing in the cause of the haitian plight .
he was assassinated on april 3 , 2000 , a crime for which no one has ever been prosecuted .
