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Gerald Michael Rivera (born July 4, 1943),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Geraldo Rivera Biography )〕 better known as Geraldo Rivera (), is an American attorney, reporter, author, and talk show host. He was the host of the talk show ''Geraldo'' from 1987 to 1998. Rivera currently hosts the newsmagazine program ''Geraldo at Large'' and appears regularly on Fox News Channel programs such as The Five. ==Early life== Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian (née Friedman), a waitress, and Cruz "Allen" Rivera (October 1, 1915 – November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver. Rivera's father was a Catholic Puerto Rican, and his mother is of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent. He was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography for Geraldo Rivera )〕 He grew up in Brooklyn and West Babylon, New York, where he attended West Babylon High School. Rivera's family was sometimes subjected to prejudice and racism, and took to spelling their surname as "Riviera" because they thought it sounded "less ethnic". From September 1961 to May 1963, he attended the State University of New York Maritime College, where he was a member of the rowing team.〔(– Sailing Book (continues) ). Geraldo.com. Retrieved on December 17, 2011.〕〔(Fort Schuyler Maritime Alumni Association ). Fsmaa.org. (September 24, 1998) Retrieved on December 17, 2011.〕 In 1965, Rivera graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. degree in business administration, and he played goalie on the lacrosse team. After a brief career in law enforcement, wherein he served the New York City Police Department as an investigator, Rivera entered law school. He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1969 near the top of his class; following graduation, he held a Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship in poverty law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the summer of 1969 before being admitted to the New York State Bar later that year.〔https://books.google.com/books?id=NLPrMMKmynwC&pg=PA364&dq=geraldo+rivera+smith+fellow&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j0uQVc6KE8bp-AGftI3QCg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=geraldo%20rivera%20smith%20fellow&f=false 〕 After working with such organizations as the lower Manhattan-based Community Action for Legal Services and the National Lawyers Guild, Rivera became a frequent attorney for the Puerto Rican activist group, the Young Lords, eventually precipitating his entry into private practice. This work attracted the attention of WABC-TV news director Al Primo when Rivera was interviewed about the group's occupation of an East Harlem church in 1969. Primo offered Rivera a job as a reporter but was unhappy with the first name "Gerald" (he wanted something more identifiably Latino) so they agreed to go with the pronunciation used by the Puerto Rican side of Rivera's family: Geraldo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Urban Legend about Geraldo Rivera's name being changed from Jerry Rivers )〕 Due to his dearth of journalistic experience, ABC arranged for Rivera to study introductory broadcast journalism under Fred Friendly in the Ford Foundation-funded Summer Program in Journalism for Members of Minority Groups at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1970.〔 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「Geraldo Rivera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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