Fronteras 602: Head of Joaquin Murrieta - John Valadez

Fronteras host Edmundo Resendez discusses with filmmaker John Valadez about his latest documentary “The Head of Joaquin Murrieta.” John Valadez is a Peabody award winning filmmaker with two emmy nominations and he has written and directed a dozen nationally broadcast documentary films for PBS and CNN.

[jesguerra]

Saw this film, very eye opening. I'm a history buff, but never knew of Mexican American lynching. In the words of Winston Churchill " History is written by the victors" Thank you John Valadez, I will search for more of your work

[emilym]

he’s my 10th great grandfather. i love learning more and more about my heritage

[murrietavive]

I was interviewed by John Valadez ten years ago when he was stating his research for this film. I am glad to see that he finally produced the film, that I have yet to see. I look forward to finding and viewing the film.

[racheldelgado]

Very informative. Heard about the Mexican lynchings. There is a historic marker being erected in the Rio Grande valley about Mexican deaths at the hand of the Texas Rangers - Los Rinches. La Matanza marks a mass grave.

[maryhernandez]

God bless you John Valadez for bringing forward the unknown history of Joaquin Murrieta… and thank you for putting his head to rest finally.

[Twsuf]

This is the first time hearing Mr. Valadez or that fact knowing about him and I have to say I'm intrigued, it's time that people are exposed to the history of Mexican Americans, thank you Mr Valadez 🙏🏽 A true fan of your work now. As a Mexican American it's a shame that our History has never been recorded

[danielcabrera]

I grew up in cantua in a ranch called halfway next to three rocks when I was 8 they would ride horses from firebaugh to el arroyo hundreds or horses it was the best thing to see out my front door all in the memory of Joaquin murrieta

[rafaelvmaldonadorv]

SR.Valadez su  revelador historico documental, me llena de orgullo y emociones, La vida de los Mexicanos que en 1848 no sabian que ya no era Mexico debido a la Guerra, Dio nacimiento a injusticias, sociales y economicas, y malas interpretaciones debido a la lengua,   sobre todo nuevas leyes y nuevas reglas,   Cuando la linea se movio al suroeste  muchos mexicanos se reusaron a dejar sus tierras donde habian nacido y fundado sus pueblos....La lengua no era Latina era tema es interesante y gracias a su admirable labor.'.

[MendoZzaOfficial]

JOAQUIN MURRIETA REPRESENTS MEXICAN RESISTANCE IN CALIFORNIA AND THE UNITED STATES

[onepowerlifting]

The victors write the story for history, not the truth. The
Alamo is an example of this. I read a story about a letter that was found in
Mexico city many years after the Alamo, the story was very different

[thevision]

Makes me laugh to hear the interviewer say that in Texas he was never taught any of these things. Taxes was much much worse than California. Texas simply refuses to acknowledge any of it. The war between Texas and Mexico which was really the United States of Mexico was far for the property rights of americans. That property were slaves. The US was pissed at Mexico because Mexico kept freeing their slaves. And would not return them. About 800 slaves made it to Canada but tens of thousands of slaves made it to Mexico and just like the native Americans accepted the runaway slaves into their tribes so did Mexico. In fact when the Gaelic speaking Irish landed on US shores and found out they were fighting to preserve slavery, they refuse to fight further and the United States in Texas murdered all of them and tried to murder their wives and children. The Mexican officials antenna as horrific as a dude was actually fought viciously to protect the women and children of these Irish who had been killed by cannons and guns even as they held knives and pieces of wood to try to protect themselves, their wives and their children. They were never recorded in American history books but in Mexico they are celebrated as the sons of Saint Patrick's or lots Patricios

[robinoray]

Been watching the Amazon series The Head of Joaquin Murrieta. Shocked by the portral of treatment of Mexican-Americas and wondered can this be true? Thank-you for this piece which both saddened and confirmed something I was never aware of.

[FresnoCruz-yoyn]

My mom worked at the Federal building in Fresno. There were these old books on land deeds. The ones from the 1850's had lchange of ownership from names like Gomez, Perez, Rodriguez, to Jones, Walker, and Smith. She said almost all had the reason for change of ownership as unkown.

[TDemeniz]

Where is the poncho from? Like the style

[vivianbrown]

Joaquin Murrieta is my Great Great Great Grandfather! Our family held on to many items of his quietly. There was a photo of him. This left out a lot of info such as part of the reason why his head was put into a jar. He had been captured and escaped 3 times which is in part why his head was put into a jar for display to prove his death.

[wallaroo]

13:00 Bravo! Bravo! 💖🔵


Our ethnic pasts - all of them - are filled with some pretty horrible behaviors. Humans are *still* doing it in many places.


I love how he explains what we need to do as a species.

[ricardotavarez]

Hello, where can I access a trailer for this film? Thank You.

[KeithOtisEdwards]

According to Wikipedia: “His preserved head was destroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire.”

[luigicapoti]

anglo merchants were invaiders and killed indians chinese blacks irish buffalos ...¿what else?

[scenecityproductions]

Sorry for all you that think that Joaquin Murieta was Mexican, he was Chilean, there are documents, witnesses, papers and stories of Joaquin Murieta leaving Valparaiso to start mining in California. The thing is that for the californian white people, all the latinos were mexicans, well, till these days. But that doesn´t mean that Joaquin it was mexican. He was Chilean. Take a look to "Splendor and death of Joaquin Murieta" by Neruda.