From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Thursday, March 19th.

Here's what we're covering.

The New York Times gets a lot of tips.

Some of them turn into things and some of them don't.

You know, it sounded almost unbelievable.

But as I talk to some of these women, it just made me think that there was something there.

My colleague, Manny Fernandez, followed up on a tip that came in a while back about Cesar Chavez,

one of the most famous figures in the American Civil Rights Movement.

Chavez rose to prominence in the late 60s advocating for Latino farm workers.

He went on to have streets named after him, annual parades in his honor.

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The tip kicked off an investigation that ultimately found extensive evidence that Chavez, who died in 1993,

groomed and sexually abused girls.

All of the women that we talked to had not publicly revealed their stories before.

One of the reasons they had been reluctant is they worried about tarnishing his legacy.

They worried about sort of destroying all that.

That weighed on them and that sort of guilt and pressure made them very scared about coming forward to tell their stories.

In digging into the allegations, Manny, along with Times investigative reporter Sarah Hertz,

talked with more than 60 people, including some of Chavez's family and top aides.

They also reviewed hundreds of pages of records, emails, photographs, and uncovered what

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