What You Can Do About The War – Ken Burns and the exclusion of Latinos in PBS documentary on PBS
Tagged: Baseball, documentary, family, Film, latin america, pbs, Puerto RicanPosted on: September 25th, 2007“Friends, Family, and Viewers Like You, Filmmaker Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz) has produced a 14.5-hour major documentary that documents the heroic actions and experiences of U.S. Serviceman during World War 2.
The series will air on PBS during September and October – National Hispanic Heritage Month.
What Mr. Burns did not include in his production, was any mention of the over 500,000 Latinos – Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Nationals, Spanish Americans, and Latinos from other Latin American countries – who served the United States in this war proudly and heroically. “
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