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The ballad of Esequiel Hernández /

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In 1997, no one in the small town (pop. 100) of Redford, Texas knew that U.S. Marine teams, fully camouflaged and armed with M16 rifles, had been secretly deployed to their section of the border. Farmers like the Hernández family, who lived by the river, went on working their fields and tending to t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jones, Tommy Lee, 1946- (Narrator), Flores, Bobby (Musician) (composer (expression))
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.
Series:Ethnographic video online.
Subjects:
Hernandez, Esequiel, > 1979-1997 > Death and burial.
U.S. Border Patrol.
Hernandez, Esequiel, > 1979-1997
U.S. Border Patrol
Homicide > Texas.
Border patrols > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Police de la frontière > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Death and burial of a person
Social conditions
Border patrols
Homicide
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
Texas
Military > Politics > Trials > Criminal investigations > Shootings > Soldiers > Crossing borders > Drug trafficking
Documentary.
Encoded moving images.
documentary film.
Social problem films
Feature films
Biographical films
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Documentary films.
Social problem films.
Biographical films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Documentaires.
Films sociaux.
Films biographiques.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:In 1997, no one in the small town (pop. 100) of Redford, Texas knew that U.S. Marine teams, fully camouflaged and armed with M16 rifles, had been secretly deployed to their section of the border. Farmers like the Hernández family, who lived by the river, went on working their fields and tending to their livestock. On the evening of May 20, 18-year-old Esequiel Hernández Jr. left the house to tend to his family's goats, taking with him, as usual, a .22 rifle to keep away wild dogs. It was the last evening of his life.
Physical Description:1 online resource (82 min.)
Production Credits:Original music, Bobby Flores ; director of photography, Kieran Fitzgerald