LOS ANGELES TIMES, March 14, 1988 

* John Holmes death of the AIDS virus 
* American adult Pornographic film actor
* "Johnny Wadd" "The King of Pornos" 
* Inspiration for "Boogie Nights" & "Wonderland"
* One of the 1st famous men to die of this

The top of page 20 has a five column heading: "John C. Holmes, 'King' of 1,000 Porno Films, Dies at 43" with photo of Holmes. (see images) 
Great to have from the capital of the adult film industry and the city where Holmes lived and died.
 I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because their was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete with all major sections (60+ pages), great condition.

Background: The March 13, 1988, death of adult film star John Holmes from AIDS-related complications marked a watershed moment that fundamentally altered the adult entertainment industry and concluded one of Hollywood’s most sordid true-crime chapters. Holmes, iconic yet deeply troubled, died at age 43 while carrying the dark legacy of his involvement in the 1981 Wonderland Murders—a brutal drug-related quadruple homicide from which he was acquitted but never truly cleared in the court of public opinion. The significance of his death was magnified by the revelation that he had continued to perform in films without a condom after testing positive for HIV in the mid-1980s. This exposure of the industry's vulnerability to the burgeoning AIDS epidemic shattered the illusion of risk-free adult entertainment, sparking widespread public outrage and forcing the immediate implementation of the industry's first mandatory safety regulations, biohazard protocols, and regular STI testing systems (which later evolved into the AIM and PASS networks). Publications reporting on his death at the time achieved a grim rarity; because his inner circle initially attempted to cover up his diagnosis by claiming he died of a "severe respiratory ailment," early newspaper prints and trade magazines capturing the immediate transition from the falsified cause of death to the verified reality of AIDS remain historically significant artifacts documenting the intense stigma, denial, and panic surrounding the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis.