List of journalists killed in the United States

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Numerous journalists have been murdered or killed in the United States while reporting, covering a military conflict, or because of their status as a journalist. At least 39 of these have been directly targeted as a result of their journalistic investigations.[1] The most recent journalists killed in the United States are Alison Parker and Adam Ward, who were killed on August 26, 2015, during a live news broadcast on WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia.

The most dangerous sector of the US media after 1980 has been the race and ethnic press.[2][3] According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, ten journalists serving the Vietnamese, Haitian and Chinese immigrant communities were killed in political assassinations between 1980 and 1993.[4][5][6] Chauncey Bailey, who was the editor at a large circulation African American newspaper, was murdered in 2007 for his investigative reporting.[7]

Since the September 11 attacks, terrorism-related deaths involving journalists is another trend.[8][9]

In some cases, journalists have been attacked but survived, such as Victor Riesel.[10]

List

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Date Name Employer Location Notes Refs
August 26, 2015 Alison Parker and Adam Ward WDBJ 7 Roanoke, 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. [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. [1][7]
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. [12]
September 11, 2001 Bill Biggart Freelance photographer Manhattan, New York City, New York Killed while photographing the rescue effort outside the World Trade Center before the tower collapsed. [13]
October 18, 2000 James Edwin Richards Citizen journalist, editor and publisher Venice, California Richards was murdered at his Oakwood neighborhood home in the neighborhood where he had established himself as a citizen crime reporter. [14][15]
October 24, 1993 Dona St. Plite WKAT-AM 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. [16][17]
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. [18][19]
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. [16][20]
February 18, 1991 Jean-Claude Olivier (a.k.a. Division Star) WLQY-AM (1320) Little Haiti, Miami, Florida A colleague of Dor's, he was known for his controversial commentary and was assassinated on his way to his car. [16][21]
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. [5][6][22][23][24][25]
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. [5][6][22][23][24]
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. [5][6][22][23]
October 15, 1984 Henry Liu (a.k.a. Chiang Nan) Freelancer and author Daly City, California A critic of the Kuomintang who was assassinated by order from the Kuomintang. [26]
June 19, 1984 Alan Berg KOA (AM) Denver, Colorado A liberal radio show host who was murdered by a white nationalist group. [27]
August 24, 1982 Nguyen Dam Phong Tu Do (Freedom) Houston, Texas Was assassinated at his home by an anti-communist group. [5][6][22][23][28]
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. [5][6][22][23][29][30]
June 28, 1978 John A. Kelly WHDH-TV Boston, Massachusetts Killed during the Blackfriars Massacre. [31]
March 9, 1977 Maurice Williams WHUR-FM Washington, D.C. He was murdered during the 1977 Hanafi Siege. [32]
June 2, 1976 Don Bolles Arizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona Murdered as a result of a car bomb set by the mafia outside the Clarendon Hotel. [33][34][35]
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. The park where the protest took place was later renamed Salazar Park in his honor. [36][37]
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. His murder remains an unsolved case. [38]
July 29, 1949 W.H. "Bill" Mason KBKI radio 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. The senate candidate who lost to Lyndon B. Johnson believed that Smithwick had information about how the election had been rigged but Smithwick was hanged before their meeting. Mason's tombstone reads: "He had the nerve to tell the truth for a lot of little people." [1][39][40][41]
January 22, 1945 Arthur Kasherman Public Press (alternative) Minneapolis, Minnesota His death figured into Hubert Humphrey's mayoral victory. [42]
December 9, 1935 Walter Liggett Midwest American Minneapolis, Minnesota He wrote about political corruption and organized crime. [43][44]
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. Minnesota. [45][46]
July 23, 1930 Jerry Buckley WMBC-AM Detroit, Michigan Gunned down on election night. [47]
July 16, 1927 Donald Ring Mellett Canton Daily News Canton, Ohio [1]
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. [48]
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. [49]
January 15, 1903 Narciso Gener Gonzales The State Columbia, South Carolina He was killed by Jim Tillman, the Lt. Governor of South Carolina, who was acquitted of murder by a jury. [50]
April 1, 1898 William Cowper Brann (a.k.a. Brann the Iconoclast) Iconoclast Waco, Texas Wrote critical articles about Baptists. Shot in the back during a duel. [51]
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. [52]
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. [53]
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. [54]
June 12, 1881 Jerome James Collins New York Herald Bennett Island, Bering Strait An Irish American, Collins founded the Clan na Gael, an Irish republican organization in the United States, and left on a polar expedition as a reporter and meteorologist with the Jeannette expedition to avoid police. However, all but two survived the sinking of the vessel. [55][56]
April 23, 1880 Charles de Young The Daily Dramatic Chronicle San Francisco, California With his brother M. H. de Young, he founded the newspaper that would become the San Francisco Chronicle. The mayor's son killed him in revenge for a feud de Young had with his father. [57]
March 27, 1877 J. Clarke Swayze Topeka Daily Blade Topeka, Kansas Swayze was killed after publishing a critical article about his murderer. [58]
June 25, 1876 Mark Kellogg (reporter) Associated Press Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana The first Associated Press journalist to die while reporting. [59]
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. [60]
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. [61]
1864 Albert Street The Mobile Register Unknown One of the few southern journalists killed during the US Civil War.
May 6, 1864 Samuel Fiske (aka Dunn Browne) The Springfield Republican Fredericksburg, Virginia Capt. Fiske wrote under the name Dunn Browne and served in the army and was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness. [62]
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. [63]
June 23, 1863 Lynde Walter Buckingham New York Herald Aldie, Virginia Killed as a result of an ambush during the U.S. Civil War. He was buried at the Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church-VDHR 53-339 in Aldie. [64]
April 6, 1862 Irving Carson New York Tribune Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee First journalist to be killed during the U.S. Civil War. Killed by a cannonball fire while covering the Battle of Shiloh and General Ulysses S. Grant. [65]
May 20, 1856 James King of William Daily Evening Bulletin San Francisco, California [66][67]
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. [68]
September 15, 1848 John Jenkins Vicksburg Sentinel Vicksburg, Mississippi Killed in a fight with an attorney after the two had a previous altercation. [69]
February 29, 1844 James A. Ryan Vicksburg Sentinel Vicksburg, Mississippi The Vicksburg Sentinel was a Democrat paper and Ryan was killed by his rival Whig counterpart in a duel on their second fight. [70]
June 6, 1843 James Hagan Vicksburg Sentinel Vicksburg, Mississippi Hagan was killed by the son of a man he had criticized in his newspaper. [69][70][71][72]
November 7, 1837 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Alton Observer Alton, Illinois This abolition editor was killed by a mob supporting slavery in the Union. [73][74]

Other journalists and media workers killed on 9/11

The only professional, working journalist to die while covering the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City was photojournalist Bill Biggart, who was killed by falling debris as he was taking photographs.[75][76] However, the International Federation of Journalists, which also counts media workers, said that six other media workers and a journalist who were not working at the time died in the attacks. Among those media workers listed as killed were six broadcast TV engineers, who worked inside a tower, and another professional photojournalist, who was a passenger on the first plane that was flown into the WTC.[77]

  • Rod Coppola, TV engineer for WNET-TV, WTC (North Tower)[78]
  • Donald DiFranco, TV engineer for WABC-TV, WTC (North Tower)[78]
  • Steve Jacobson, TV engineer for WPIX-TV, WTC (North Tower)[78]
  • Bob Pattison, TV engineer for WCBS-TV, WTC (North Tower)[77][78]
  • Thomas Pecorelli, professional freelance photojournalist, American Airlines Flight 11 passenger[77]
  • Isias Rivera, TV engineer for WCBS-TV, WTC (North Tower)[77][78]
  • William Steckman, TV engineer for WNBC-TV, WTC (North Tower)[78]

Maps

Locations in the United States (mapped).
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Phoenix
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Washington
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Houston
link=KOA (AM)
Denver
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Fairfax
link=Little Haiti
Miami
link=World Trade Center
New York
link=Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward
Moneta
1976–Present. Places outside of California where American journalists have been killed in the United States.
Locations in the United States (mapped).
link=Elliot Park, Minneapolis
Minneapolis
1926–1975. Places in the United States where American journalists have been killed.
Locations in the United States (mapped).
link=Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Battle of Little Bighorn
1876–1925. Places in the United States where American journalists have been killed.
Locations in the United States (mapped).
link=Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument
Alton
link=Old Warren County Courthouse
Vicksburg
link=Stockton, California
Stockton
1826–1875. Places in the United States where American journalists have been killed.

Gallery

Journalists killed in the United States
Elijah Parish Lovejoy (portrait)
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
 
James King of William
James King of William
 
Frederick Wadsworth Loring (portrait)
Frederick Wadsworth Loring
 
Mark Kellogg
Mark Kellogg
 
William Cowper Brann
William Cowper Brann
 
Edward Ward Carmack (portrait)
Edward Ward Carmack
 
Walter W Liggett
Walter W Liggett
 
Rubén Salazar
Rubén Salazar
 

See also

References

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