The Pulso Podcast

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This week Latino USA brings you an episode of The Pulso Podcast.

Texas 1951. Farmworker Pete Hernandez walks into a bar with a rifle and shoots another man. He is taken to court for murder, but when the state refuses to allow any Latinos on the jury, a rebellious team of Hispanic lawyers signs up for a wild ride that will take them all the way to the Supreme Court, and change the definition of what it means to Hispanic in the U.S.

This episode was Produced & Written by Charlie Garcia, it was edited by Liz Alarcon. Original music by Julian Blackmore. Audio Engineering & Mixing by Julian Blackmore and Charlie Garcia. Special thanks to LULAC historian David Contreras.

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0:45.0	Dear listener, hola!
0:47.0	Today on LatinoUSA we want to share with you the Pulse podcast hosted by Liz Alarcon and Maribel Quesada Smith.
0:56.0	They, too, discussed issues important to the Latino community, just like us.
1:00.0	Often they do this through the prism of history.
1:04.0	Today we're featuring a story set in 1951 Texas.
1:09.0	At the center of it is a Latino farm worker who shoots and kills a man at a bar.
1:14.0	At his trial, Latinos were not allowed on the jury, leaving an all white group to decide his fate.
1:22.0	The case would go all the way up to the Supreme Court, ultimately changing history and civil rights.
1:28.0	Here are Liz Alarcon and Maribel Quesada Smith with the episode Latino's versus the state of Texas.
1:37.0	It's August 1951, in a little town called Edna Texas and a crime is about to take place.
1:43.0	A young Mexican-American farmhand named Pete Hernandez walks into Cinco Sanchez's tabern with a rifle.
1:50.0	He poised it at a man named Joe Espinoza, who'd been bullying him earlier that day and fires a single bullet into his chest.
1:57.0	Joe dies on the spot. Pete is arrested and put on trial for murder.
2:02.0	The case seems cut and dry, but when the all white jury refuses to give Pete a fair trial,
2:07.0	a bold team of Latino lawyers decide it's time to fight back, and their fight will alter the history of civil rights for ever changing what it means to be Latino in the US.
2:17.0	Welcome to the Puso podcast, where we tell the untold stories and unheard voices that make up our history, our culture, nuestra gente.
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