Ray Richardson

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Person.png Ray RichardsonRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(activist, television producer)
BornMarch 31, 1946
DiedJanuary 1971 (Age 24)
Acapulco, Mexico
Cause of death
drowning
NationalityUS
Victim ofpremature death

Ray Richardson was a black activist who was producer from 1968-70 of Say Brother, Boston Public Television station WGBH’s prime time public-affairs show.[1]

Death

Richardson, though a strong swimmer, was declared dead from "asphyxiation by drowning" at age twenty-four in Acapulco, Mexico in late January 1971.[2] Members of Ray Richardson’s family believed that -- because of Ray’s activities, because of the powerful forces who felt threatened by those activities, and because of the general political climate -- he was monitored and targeted and that the U.S. government was involved in his death.[1]

Coincidentally, the drowning happened on the same day as Guatemalan former president Jacobo Arbenz died by drowning in his bathtub, but more probably assassinated by spooks.[3]


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