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:''"Oscar Acosta" redirects here. For the Major League Baseball pitching coach, see Oscar Carlos Acosta Oscar "Zeta" Acosta (April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was an American attorney, politician, novelist and activist in the Chicano Movement. He was most well known for his novels ''Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo'' (1972) and ''The Revolt of the Cockroach People'' (1973),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guide to the Oscar Zeta Acosta PapersCEMA 1 )〕 and his friendship with American author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson characterized him as a heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his novel ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas''. Acosta disappeared in 1974 during a trip in Mazatlan, Mexico, and is presumed dead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1846670_1846800_1846911,00.html )〕 == Life and career == Acosta was born in El Paso, Texas to Manuel and Juanita (''née'' Fierro) Acosta, from Mexico and El Paso, respectively. Oscar was the third child born but second to survive childhood. He had an older brother, Roberto, born in 1934.〔 After the family moved to California, the children were raised in the small San Joaquin Valley rural community of Riverbank, California, near Modesto.〔〔 Acosta's father was drafted during World War II. After finishing high school, Acosta joined the U.S. Air Force. Following his discharge, Acosta worked his way through Modesto Junior College. He went on to San Francisco State University where he studied creative writing,〔 becoming the first member of his family to get a college education. He attended night classes at San Francisco Law School and passed the California Bar exam in 1966.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/38731 )〕 In 1967, Acosta began working locally as an antipoverty attorney for the East Oakland Legal Aid Society.〔 In 1968, Acosta moved to East Los Angeles and joined the Chicano Movement as an activist attorney, defending Chicano groups and activists. He represented the Chicano 13 of the East L.A. walkouts, Rodolfo Gonzales, members of the Brown Berets, and other residents of the East L.A. barrio. His controversial defenses earned him the ire of the LAPD, who often followed and harassed him. Local law enforcement and the FBI linked Acosta to a shadowy organization called the Chicano Liberation Front, which claimed responsibility for numerous bombings in southern and northern California. In 1970, Acosta ran for sheriff of Los Angeles County against Peter J. Pitchess, and received more than 100,000 votes. During the campaign, he was jailed for two days for contempt of court. He vowed that if elected, he would do away with the Sheriff's Department as it was then constituted. Known for loud ties and a flowered attaché case with a Chicano Power sticker, Acosta lost to Pitchess' 1.3 million votes, but did beat Everett Holladay, Monterey Park Chief of Police. In 1972, Acosta published his first novel, ''Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo,'' about a lawyer fighting for the rights of a marginalized people. It included a fictionalized account related to the murder of columnist Rubén Salazar of the ''Los Angeles Times''. In 1973, Acosta published ''The Revolt of the Cockroach People'', a fictionalized version of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oscar Zeta Acosta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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