Clinton Jencks

Age: 87

Summary: union organizer who led New Mexico mineworkers in a McCarthy-era strike chronicled in the classic film Salt of the Earth (1953) while he was an organizer for the progressive union Amalgamated Bayard District Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Local 890 in a 15-month strike begun in 1950 against Empire Zinc Co.

Cause of Death: Natural causes

Born: March 1, 1918

Died: December 14, 2005

Location: San Diego, California