The Forgotten Revolutionary - Part 4
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Adolfo finds a briefcase with information that could lead to clues about Oscar’s death.
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| 0:32.6 | At one point, early in our reporting, producer Natalie Chinovsky and I visit Mr. Gomez to learn more about the death of his son, |
| 0:40.6 | Oscar Gomez. We don't record, but we debrief in the car after, |
| 0:45.7 | and one name in particular sounds like a lead. |
| 0:49.4 | What's your takeaway? What do you remember most? |
| 0:56.4 | Um, I mean, one of the things that I definitely want to look into is this woman, Lisa. |
| 1:02.4 | So they mentioned that right after Oscar died, this girl, probably a student from UCSB, met them at one of the memorials for Oscar, |
| 1:14.0 | and she came up to Oscar Sr. and said, |
| 1:17.1 | I never knew your son, but I want to help you. |
| 1:19.6 | I totally had the same questions about what's her motivation? |
| 1:23.0 | Like all of a sudden she shows up, and she wants to, she never knew Oscar, but she wants to be part of the family, right? |
| 1:32.6 | Mr. Gomez has Lisa spent months helping him with the investigation, and he's still not really sure why. |
| 1:38.7 | He seems suspicious. He says we could find her name if we look through a book about 1990s Chicano student activism. |
| 1:46.9 | He thinks she's in it. |
| 1:48.7 | We order a copy, and there on the cover is a photograph of student hunger strikers, taken by Lisa. |
| 1:57.7 | The photo credit is our first bit of information about her. |
| 2:01.5 | Her full name is Lisa Valencia Sherritt. |
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