John Hoagland was an experienced American photojournalist and war correspondent for Newsweek from San Diego, California, who was covering the Salvadoran Civil War in El Salvador at the time he was killed.
20 Facts About John Hoagland
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John Hoagland had covered other conflicts, including those in Nicaragua and Lebanon.
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John Hoagland was born in San Diego, California to Helen and Al Hoagland in 1947.
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The family was native to San Diego, where John attended Helix High School and remained in 1965 at the University of California, San Diego.
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John Hoagland studied under a world renowned scholar and author, Herbert Marcuse, who wrote Eros and Civilization along with One Dimensional Man.
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In 1970, John Hoagland was at a massive anti-war movement in downtown Los Angeles, when the journalist Ruben Salazar was shot and killed by police.
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John Hoagland was arrested along with his friends and his video equipment confiscated.
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John Hoagland divorced and took his son Eros with him.
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John Hoagland's son, Eros John Hoagland, is a photographer who currently works in conflict zones around the globe.
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John Hoagland published photos for the Associated Press, United Press International, the Gamma Liaison news photography agency and Newsweek magazine.
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Almost a year after his son, Eros John Hoagland, was born he went from passive protesting to active protesting.
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John Hoagland worked a steel welder in San Francisco, but, he was an amateur photographer.
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John Hoagland took photographs of what he found interesting or, in some cases, corrupt.
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John Hoagland wanted to make a difference and get the story of this country out into the public to help the people who could not escape.
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The partner of this journalist now needed someone else to work with, and John Hoagland stepped up to help, entering a short career as a sound man.
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John Hoagland worked with reporter Ignacio Rodriguez from a Mexican newspaper and who was shot and killed by a sniper soon after in Lebanon.
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At the time of his death, John Hoagland was a contract photographer for Newsweek.
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The news teams took cover among small hills that were covered in grass, and as John Hoagland went to kneel down he yelled that he had been hit.
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John Hoagland had died merely 15 seconds after being hit, but no one knew until after the firefight had been broken up by the Salvadoran army.
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John Hoagland was one of 35 journalists whose names appeared on "death lists" by Salvadoran death squads.