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PORTALES — Newspaper humor columnist Robert "Bob" E. Huber, one of two people taken hostage during the 1967 armed assault on the Rio Arriba County courthouse, has died. He was 76.

Working for United Press International during the 1960s, Huber covered the Gemini and Apollo space missions, along with the famed courthouse raid led by land grant activist Reies Lopez Tijerina in Tierra Amarilla, N.M., on June 5, 1967.

Tijerina and his followers, attempting an unsuccessful citizens arrest of the district attorney, shot and wounded a State Police officer and jailer, beat a deputy and took Huber and the sheriff hostage.

"He got in the car, and they held a gun to his head and told him to drive," said Huber's daughter, Tracy LeCocq of Roswell.

The hostages later escaped. Tijerina spent about three years in prison.

Huber died Friday at his home.