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Keen, who was known as the “Dean of San Diego Journalism,” is shown in his home office, surrounded by awards he’d won throughout the years. Look closely and you’ll spot his prosthetic leg perched beside him.
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relentless output likely contributed to his three heart attacks and the amputation of his left leg in 1975 due to circulatory problems. His byline continued to appear in the magazine after his death in June of 1981. Keen didn’t break any Watergate-style corruption on his watch, but his analysis served as a roadmap to help others make sense of scandal when it did arise. He’s rightly revered today as San Diego’s sociopolitical historian—a reporter who took the long view and teased out the city’s theme-park logic, not in academic jargon, but with the voices of ordinary and powerful people alike. Journalists like to think of their work as the first draft of history. In Keen’s case, that was actually true.
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