{"id":520,"date":"2016-03-11T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2025-05-18T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:12:09","slug":"deportee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/deportee\/","title":{"rendered":"Deportee (Woody Guthrie\/the plane crash)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deportee\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iCtsQ2qmIq8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of Woody Guthrie&#8217;s most timeless songs, unfortunately&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Like most people, I first heard this from Pete Seeger, since although Woody wrote the lyric, he never sang it. He wrote it as a poem, which was set to music by Martin Hoffman, a student at Colorado State University, who sang it for Seeger in 1957 at a party after a concert in Fort Collins.\u00a0 (Hoffman would go on to be an early inspiration for Judy Collins, who wrote a song for him after his death in the 1970s.)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-522 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/deportees-300x213.jpg?resize=300%2C213\" alt=\"deportees\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/deportees.jpg?resize=300%2C213&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/deportees.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The poem was inspired by news reports of a plane that crashed near Coalinga, California, on January 28, 1948, carrying a group of 28 Mexican migrant farm workers who had come to the United States as part of the bracero program and were being deported. The dead were buried in a mass grave, with a headstone naming the members of the Anglo crew, but not the Mexicans &#8212; hence, &#8220;you won&#8217;t have a name when you ride the big airplane.&#8221; Woody added some names, to personalize the people who died, but only in the last few years have the actual names been publicized, thanks to <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-521 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Jaime-Ramirez-and-Tim-Z-Hernandez.jpg?resize=269%2C222&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jaime Ramirez and Tim Z Hernandez\" width=\"269\" height=\"222\" \/>a poet, writer, and performance artist named Tim Z. Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez is working on a book and documentary film, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/timzhernandez.com\/2016\/01\/28\/all-they-will-call-you\/\">All They Will Call You<\/a><\/em>, about the crash, the song, and the stories of the people who were killed, and there are numerous articles on the web giving more information about his project, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/arts\/artbound\/counties\/rewriting-a-tragic-story-tim-z-hernandezs-deportee-memorial-plane-crash-project.html\">this one<\/a>. Hernandez&#8217;s family came to the United States as migrant workers, and he has made it his mission to find descendants of the people who died in the crash, as well as letters and photographs. He was also instrumental in getting a new headstone placed at their grave, with all 28 names:<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Negrete \u00c1lvarez \u2013 Tom\u00e1s Avi\u00f1a de Gracia \u2013 Francisco D\u00faran Llamas \u2013 Santiago Elizondo Garcia \u2013 Rosalio Padilla Estrada \u2013 Tom\u00e1s M\u00e1rquez Padilla \u2013 Bernab\u00e9 Garcia L\u00f3pez \u2013 Salvador Hern\u00e1ndez Sandoval \u2013 Severo L\u00e1ra Medina \u2013 Elias Macias Trujillo \u2013 Jos\u00e9 Macias Rodriguez \u2013 Luis Medina L\u00f3pez \u2013 Manuel Merino Calder\u00f3n \u2013 Luis Miranda Cuevas \u2013 Martin Razo Navarro \u2013 Ignacio Navarro P\u00e9rez \u2013 Rom\u00e1n Ochoa Ochoa \u2013 Ramon Paredes Gonzalez \u2013 Guadalupe Ramirez L\u00e1ra \u2013 Apolonio Placencia Ramirez \u2013 Alberto Carlos Raygoza \u2013 Guadalupe Rodriguez \u2013 Maria Rodriguez Santana \u2013 Juan Ruiz Valenzuela \u2013 Wenceslao Ruiz Flores \u2013 J\u00f3se Valdivia S\u00e1nchez \u2013 J\u00e9sus Santos Meza \u2013 Baldomero Marcos Torres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woody Guthrie&#8217;s paean to the plight of migrant farmworkers, in Martin Hoffman&#8217;s lovely setting, with background including names of the notoriously nameless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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