Paul Avery worked for decades at the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee.
16 Facts About Paul Avery
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Paul Avery's parents divorced and his mother married Howard Malcom Avery, a US Navy officer and pilot.
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Avery was raised and educated in Honolulu, Oakland, California, and Washington, DC At 21, Avery started his career in journalism in 1955 at the Vicksburg Post-Herald.
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Paul Avery later worked at the Victoria Advocate, the Anchorage Daily Times, the Honolulu Advertiser, where he was appointed the paper's Big Island bureau chief at 23; and the San Luis Obispo Telegram.
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In Saigon, Paul Avery co-founded Empire News, a freelance photojournalism organization.
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Paul Avery expanded Empire News, opening a branch in Hong Kong, before returning to San Francisco in 1969, after three years in Asia.
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Paul Avery worked there until his retirement in August 1994.
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Paul Avery received notice for his reportage on the Zodiac Killer case, a series of killings that began in December 1968 and ostensibly ended with the death of a San Francisco cab driver in October 1969.
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At the time, Paul Avery was a police reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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When Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in February 1974, Paul Avery joined forces with Chronicle reporter Tim Findley to produce a series of stories detailing the kidnapping and reporting about the members of the little-known band of revolutionaries who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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Paul Avery covered the Hearst case until the young heiress was arrested in September 1975.
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Paul Avery holed up on his houseboat at Gate 5 in Sausalito with Boston writer Vin McLellan to write The Voices of Guns, a book on the SLA and the Hearst kidnapping.
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Paul Avery was diagnosed with emphysema, a progressive disease, but he continued working in crime and journalism until the end of his life.
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Paul Avery was instrumental in convincing detectives to drop the charges.
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Paul Avery died of pulmonary emphysema in West Sound, Washington, on December 10,2000.
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Paul Avery has two daughters from an earlier marriage, Charle Avery and Cristin Avery.