Mel Opotowsky, newspaper editor and 1st Amendment advocate, dies at 92
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— Maurice Leon “Mel” Opotowsky, a former newspaper editor and tenacious free press advocate who was known for helping to advance 1st Amendment rights, has died. Opotowsky died April 18 at Claremont Manor retirement community, where he lived with his wife, Bonnie Opotowsky, according to their son, Didier Opotowsky. He said his father’s cause of death is not certain, and that he had Parkinson’s. He was 92. Opotowsky was a top editor at the Riverside Press-Enterprise when the paper brought two cases...
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