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)
Education: San Francisco State University, Modesto Junior College, San Francisco Law School, and more
Nationality: American