XPost: alt.gossip.celebrities, alt.true-crime, misc.legal   
   XPost: nyc.general   
   From: Lilly@Shanghai.cn   
      
   Lars Eighner wrote:   
   > In our last episode,   
   > ,   
   > the lovely and talented Mitchell Holman   
   > broadcast on alt.true-crime:   
   >   
   >> "° Shanghai Lil °"  wrote in   
   >> news:45af15f5$0$4751$88260bb3 @free.teranews.com:   
   >   
   >>> What's with Geraldo Rivera not being able to pronounce / enunciate   
   >>> his own name?   
   >>>   
   >   
   >>       Because it isn't his own name. His name is Jerry Rivers.   
   >   
   > An often debunked urban legend.   
      
   Gerald Michael Rivera (born July 4, 1943)   
      
   Geraldo Rivera was born in New York City to a Puerto Rican father and a   
   Jewish-American mother and was raised in West Babylon, Long Island, New   
   York. He graduated in 1961 from West Babylon High School. His birth   
   certificate records him as Gerald Michael Riviera, born to Allen and Lillian   
   (Friedman) Rivera. In his autobiography Exposing Myself, Rivera said he   
   believed his mother was attempting to deflect future discrimination from her   
   children by misspelling their surname on their birth certificates, as they   
   were the products of a mixed marriage.   
      
   He is an alumnus of the University of Arizona, where he played lacrosse at   
   midfield (and called himself Jerry Rivers). He received his J.D. from   
   Brooklyn Law School in 1969 and later attended Columbia University. He was a   
   lawyer for a New York Puerto Rican group, the Young Lords, and attracted the   
   attention of a news producer when he was interviewed about the group's   
   occupation of a Harlem church in 1970.   
      
      
      
      
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