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N O T E S T O P A G E S 3 3 – 5 5 221 90. City Discrimination Files, GNC, box 1989/19, file 9, Blacklisted Counties (by the Mexican Government), TSA. 91. Quoted in San Miguel, Jr., “Let All of Them Take Heed,” p. 23. 92. Ibid., pp. 53–58. 93. Three Rivers News, January 20, 1949, HPGP, TAMUCC. 94. Allsup, The American G.I. Forum, pp. 81–97. 95. Vaughn Price and Ann Blackmon-Fair, interview with Robert Miranda, Three Rivers (July 23, 1986), HPGP, TAMUCC. 96. Ibid.; San Miguel, Jr., “Let All of Them Take Heed,” p. 24; Allsup, The American G.I. Forum, pp. 81–97. 97. Taped interview with Vaughn Price and Ann Blackmon-Fair by Robert Miranda, Three Rivers (July 23, 1986), HPGP, TAMUCC. 98. Ibid. 99. Labor Camp Investigation and Report: Labor Camp No. 1, HPGP, box 154, folder 1, TAMUCC. This investigation was sanctioned and sponsored by the League of United Latin American Citizens, Council 1, of Corpus Christi. 100. Labor Camp Investigation and Report: Labor Camp No. 2, HPGP, box 154, folder 2, TAMUCC. 101. Ibid. 102. Labor Camp Investigation and Report: Camp No. 3 (April 11, 1948), HPGP, box 154, folder 2, TAMUCC. 103. Labor Camp Investigation and Report: Camp No. 5 (April 11, 1948), HPGP, box 154, folder 2, TAMUCC. 104. Chicken Farm, Orange Grove and Mathis (April 22, 1948), Labor Camp Investigation and Report, box 154, folder 25, HPGP, TAMUCC. 105. Preliminary Report on Mathis, Texas (April 11, 1948), Labor Camp Investigation and Report, box 154, folder 2, HPGP, TAMUCC. 106. Ibid. 107. Report on Schools in Orange Grove, Texas (April 11, 1948), Labor Camp Investigation and Report, box 154, folder 2, HPGP, TAMUCC. 108. Report on Schools in Sandia, Texas (April 11, 1948), Labor Camp Investigation and Report, box 154, folder 2, HPGP, TAMUCC. 109. Labor Camp Investigation and Report: Summary of Labor Camps (April 11, 1948), box 154, folder 2, HPGP, TAMUCC. 2. THE INCIDENT 1. Taped interview with Margarito de Luna in his Three Rivers home by Pat Carroll and George Flores (November 27, 1992), HPGP, TAMUCC. 2. Ibid. 3. Si Dunn, “The Legacy of Private Longoria,” Dallas Morning News, April 6, 1975, p. 1, in LBJPL, PPCF, box 3, Folder Longoria, Felix [Newspaper Articles 1 of 2]. 4. Lieutenant Colonel Walter Pasqualini, Office of the Secretary of the Army, to U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz (December 5, 1985), HPGP, TAMUCC; N O T E S T O P A G E S 5 5 – 5 7 222 Walter Jenkins to Lyndon Johnson (January 17, 1949), PPCF, box 3, Folder Longoria, Felix [Newspaper Articles 2 of 2]; telegram, R. A. Cortez, President General of the League of United Latin American Citizens (hereinafter LULAC), to Lyndon Johnson (January 12, 1949), PPCF, Folder Longoria , Felix, Correspondence, 2 of 2, LBJPL. Some of the information on Felix’s army career appeared as a notation penciled in at the bottom of the Cortez telegram. 5. Taped interview with Beatrice Longoria and Adela Longoria de Cerra by Pat Carroll, Corpus Christi (May 30, 1990), HPGP, TAMUCC; taped interview with Sara Posas by Robert Miranda, Portland, Texas (January 29, 1989), in the HPGP, TAMUCC; Texas State Archive (hereinafter abbreviated TSA), House Journal, 51st Legislature (February 17, 1949), p. 1420. 6. Taped interview with Sara Posas by Robert Miranda, Portland, Texas (January 29, 1989), in the HPGP, TAMUCC. 7. Notarized statement of Beatrice Longoria, HPGP, TAMUCC; George Green, “The Felix Longoria Affair,” Journal of Ethnic Studies 19 (3): 25. 8. It is unclear whether Beatrice Longoria dated Mike Zepeda before or after her husband’s death. Beatrice would not comment on her relationship with Mr. Zepeda. Carolina Longoria de Quintanilla, Felix’s younger sister, acknowledged that Beatrice was romantically involved with Mr. Zepeda, but would not say whether that was when her brother was still alive or not. Jane Kennedy and Thomas House, on the other hand, adamantly claimed that Beatrice went out with Mike Zepeda while Felix was still alive and fighting in the Philippines. Mrs. Kennedy and her grandson claimed that this was common knowledge in Three Rivers during and after the war. Jane Kennedy pointed out that this supported her husband’s ultimate explanation for his refusal to allow Beatrice to wake her husband in the Rice funeral chapel—that he acted out of consideration for Felix’s parents, who wanted their son’s body waked in their home. Also Kennedy wanted to avoid any public...

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