Imperfect Paradise presents The Forgotten Revolutionary Redux: Part 2

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

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Part 2:

Adolfo learns that there was a dark side to Oscar’s experience in the Chicano student movement.

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0:00.0	In the 90s, Oscar Gomez was a rising star in the Chicano student activist movement, but then he was found dead.
0:08.0	What happened to Oscar?
0:10.0	Imperfect Paradise the Forgotten Revolutionary, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:15.0	Hey, I'm Antonia Selejido and this is Imperfect Paradise from L.Aa Studios, the show about Hidden Worlds and
0:24.6	messy realities.
0:26.6	You're listening to special redrope of Imperfect Paradise The Forgotten Revolutionary from our second
0:31.6	season. Last episode, we learned about the mysterious circumstances
0:36.0	surrounding the death of Chicano student activist Oscar Gomez.
0:40.0	The body of 21-year-old Oscar Gomez was discovered at the bottom of a cliff near the UCSB campus last November.
0:47.0	What does Hussizhizhizhizhizhizhizhizhizhizhizhizhizhizhizhizhiz?
0:52.0	For me, it means like, number one,
0:54.5	is he didn't get justice.
0:56.0	He never has gotten a justice up to this day.
0:59.7	This episode, we search for clues
1:02.1	by diving into Oscar's college years and road to
1:04.9	activism. Here's LA's correspondent Adolfo Guzman Lopez. As I start investigating Oscar's death, one of the first documents I get a hold of is his
1:20.6	college transcript. I expect Oscar's grades to be just as good as those he received in high school,
1:26.0	but the transcript tells a very different story.
1:30.0	As a freshman, Oscar's averaging B's, with some A's and C's thrown in.
1:34.9	By his junior year, there's a noticeable decline.
1:38.6	These are his grades for the spring quarter of 1994, his last quarter at UC Davis.
1:43.6	Mexican Chicano mural Workshop, C-plus.
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