"Richard was born July 23, 1946, in Abilene, Kansas, the hometown of one of his boyhood heroes, Dwight Eisenhower. Richard still had an I like Ike pin in his Berkeley apartment that was otherwise cluttered with books and old newspaper clippings, but his politics quickly shifted. He cast his first presidential vote for Dick Gregory in 1968 and his last, reluctantly, for Kamala Harris, only because of how much he feared and loathed Donald Trump."
"He found refuge in camping trips with his dad, and friendships with teachers and other adults around town who shared his many obsessive interests, including history, politics, photography, architecture, psychology and mineralogy. Richard devoured books, just not the ones his teachers assigned. He dropped out of college and stumbled into reporting while helping a friend with a story for the Las Vegas Review-Journal."
"Richard's first story landed on the front page. When the editor later offered him a job and asked what he wanted to cover, Richard suggested Civil Rights, Radical Politics and the War on Poverty. A new beat and a new career were born. He left the paper at age 21, but not before winning Nevada's highest journalism honor for his coverage of the city's Black residents and their exclusion from front-end jobs in the casino industry."
Richard Brenneman was a prolific Berkeley reporter who chronicled city development conflicts for the anti-development Berkeley Daily Planet. He was born July 23, 1946, in Abilene, Kansas, and died April 12 at age 78 of esophageal cancer. He grew up in Abilene and Fort Collins, Colorado, and took refuge in camping, books, and friendships with adults who shared his wide interests. He dropped out of college, began reporting at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, won Nevada's top journalism honor for coverage of Black residents excluded from casino jobs, and maintained a combative stance toward newspaper owners and editors.
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