RIP: San Francisco Journalist Warren Hinckle

Says daughter Pia Hinckle: "He had a great, great time, and no regrets."

From 1964 to 1969, Warren Hinckle was the editor of Ramparts magazine. He then launched his own publication, Scanlan’s Monthly, which famously sent Hunter S. Thompson to the Kentucky Derby. After that enterprise’s short-lived run, he became a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, Examiner and Independent.

This morning, the man indelibly associated with an eye patch and basset hound named Bentley passed away from complications due to pneumonia. He was 77. From the Chronicle obituary:

“Warren was the godfather of California — and you could say, national —progressive journalism,” said David Talbot, whose book Season of the Witch details the tumultuous history of San Francisco from the 1960s to the early ’80s.

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