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DATE: MONDAY, May 10, 1993                   TAG: 9305100066
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SOUTH PASADENA, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

JERRY COHEN, LA WATTS RIOTS REPORTER, DIES

Retired reporter Jerry Cohen, whose writing about the 1965 Watts riots helped the Los Angeles Times win a Pulitzer Prize, has died. He was 70.

Cohen's body was found in his home Saturday. The journalist had been in failing health for several years.

Cohen, who retired from the Times in 1987, was lead writer for the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watts riots. He later was co-author of a book about the riots, "Burn Baby Burn."

He also was co-author of "The Pied Piper of Tucson," detailing the sordid life of Charles Howard Schmid Jr., who preyed on teen-age girls.

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