Moore covered many of the major stories of the late 1960s and early 1970s: LSD, assassinations, the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the McCarthy campaign, urban riots, the My Lai Massacre, and the beginnings of Feminism.

[2][3] At the Tribune he worked general assignment stories, covered county government in Bernalillo and Valencia counties and wrote a weekly column “Moore on the Arts.” Hired by Life magazine in 1965, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a reporter in Life’s entertainment department.

Six months later, he was assigned to the Los Angeles bureau as a correspondent[4] He wrote articles on the advent of LSD,[5] on racial tensions in Watts[6] profiles of entertainment figures, and a major article on the politics of college students ("Who Says College Kids Have Changed”).

8, 1968])[10][11] In 1969, he returned to New York City as an Associate Editor with responsibility for Life’s news department.

His articles appeared in People,[12] The Saturday Evening Post[13] Reader’s Digest,[14] Horticulture[15] and other national magazines.