Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), and was friends with American author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson characterized him as a heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in 1974 during a trip in Mexico and is presumed dead.

1935Albert Bustamante, American soldier, educator, and politician (died 2021)^[†]

Albert Garza Bustamante was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 23rd district. A Democrat, he served as a member and one-time Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Headlines from April 8, 1935

MAYOR PLEDGES AID TO POLICE IN COURTS; He Will Sit as a Committing Magistrate on Sound Cases That Others Throw Out.

Shopkeeper in Danzig Turns Tables on Nazis

MAYOR PICKS O.W. KNAUTH, ECONOMIST, TO HEAD RELIEF; 'HORSE SENSE' IS HIS RULE; LONG A STORE EXECUTIVE

GOVERNOR APPEALS TO PUBLIC TO FORCE REAPPORTIONMENT; In Radio Speech Bristling With Denunciation of Bill's Foes, He Asks 'Miracle.'

Tornadoes Ravage South; 26 Killed and 150 Injured; Storms Wreck Town and Visit Death on Two Other Places in Mississippi -- Nine Lost as Houseboat Upsets in Louisiana.

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