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Sat Oct 12, 2024, 12:58 AM Oct 12

Arlo Guthrie - 'Deportee' (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Live at Farm Aid 2000 - By Woody Guthrie 🎸

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- Arlo Guthrie, the son of Woody Guthrie, Live. Farm Aid 2000, Sept. 17, Bristow, Virginia.

- "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" is a protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie and music by Martin Hoffman detailing the Jan. 28, 1948 crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles west of Coalinga in Fresno County, California.

Woody Guthrie was inspired to write the song by what he considered the racist mistreatment of the passengers before and after the accident. The crash resulted in the deaths of 32 people, 4 Americans and 28 migrant farm workers who were being deported from California back to Mexico.

History: The genesis of "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" reportedly occurred when Guthrie was struck by the fact that radio and newspaper coverage of the Los Gatos plane crash did not give the victims' names, but instead referred to them merely as "deportees"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportee_(Plane_Wreck_at_Los_Gatos)
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Arlo Guthrie - 'Deportee' (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Live at Farm Aid 2000 - By Woody Guthrie 🎸 (Original Post) appalachiablue Oct 12 OP
Thanks for that. Very timely. Easterncedar Oct 12 #1
YW, yes a timely, moving song. Much praise for America's songwriter Woody Guthrie. appalachiablue Oct 12 #2
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