Lance Canales & The Flood - Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)
// Lance Canales & The Flood featuring Tim Z. Hernandez
// Video created by Tudor Stanley
// In 1948, a plane carrying 32 passengers crashed in the Los Gatos Canyon, California killing everyone on board. The media, including the New York Times, listed the names of the pilots, the flight attendant and the immigration guard but all 28 of the migrant workers (braceros) were labeled as deportees. This angered folk singer Woody Gutherie who wrote a poem about the crash. Almost ten years later, school teacher Martin Hoffman composed a melody to Gutherie’s poem and that song became well known with covers by the likes of Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and many more.
Around 2010 Central Valley writer Tim Z. Hernandez discovered the story and soon began a project of finding the names and surviving relatives. Soon after musician Lance Canales joined the journey and composed his own version of the legendary song with Hernandez reading all the names of the deceased workers. Thanks to a fundraiser spearheaded by the two artist a new head stone has been built in the Holy Cross honoring all 32 passengers.
The search is still on for any relatives of the braceros, if you are related to one please contact Tim Z. Hernandez:
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This video was filmed in Fresno, Northfork, Dinuba, Orosi, Reedley, Madera and Stockton.
Band: David Quinday on upright Bass, Zak Perrish on percussion, Chris Estep on Drums
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