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Oscar Zeta Acosta

Oscar Zeta Acosta

Lawyer
Born in 1935, Oscar Zeta Acosta was an activist in the Chicano Movement and an attorney. His friendship with Hunter S. Thompson provided fodder for that author’s best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Acosta was dramatized as... Google Books
Born: April 8, 1935, El Paso, TX
Died: 1974 (age 39 years), Mexico
Spouse: Socorro Aguiniga (m. 1969–1971) and Betty Daves (m. 1956–1963)
Nationality: American