Title The ballad of Esequiel Hernández / a film by Kieran Fitzgerald ; directed by Kieran Fitzgerald ; produced by Brendan Fitzgerald ; co-produced by Shane Slattery-Quintanilla ; edited and written by Kieran Fitzgerald, Brendan Fitzgerald, Shane Slattery-Quintanilla ; produce by Heyoka Pictures

Published Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (82 min.) Series Ethnographic video online Summary In 1997, no one in the small town (pop. 100) of Redford, Texas knew that U.S. Marine teams, fully camouflaged and armed with M16 rifles, had been secretly deployed to their section of the border. Farmers like the Hernández family, who lived by the river, went on working their fields and tending to their livestock. On the evening of May 20, 18-year-old Esequiel Hernández Jr. left the house to tend to his family's goats, taking with him, as usual, a .22 rifle to keep away wild dogs. It was the last evening of his life Analysis Military Politics Trials Criminal investigations Shootings Soldiers Crossing borders Drug trafficking Credits Original music, Bobby Flores ; director of photography, Kieran Fitzgerald Performer Narrator, Tommy Lee Jones Event Recorded in Tex., Castle Rock, Wash., Owosso, Mich., Tehachapi, Calif., and Naco, Ariz Subject Hernandez, Esequiel, 1979-1997 -- Death and burial SUBJECT Hernandez, Esequiel, 1979-1997 fast Subject U.S. Border Patrol. SUBJECT U.S. Border Patrol fast Subject Homicide -- Texas Border patrols -- Mexican-American Border Region Death and burial of a person Social conditions Border patrols Homicide SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Texas Genre/Form Documentary documentary film. Social problem films Feature films Biographical films Documentary films Nonfiction films Nonfiction films. Feature films. Documentary films. Social problem films. Biographical films. Films autres que de fiction. Documentaires. Films sociaux. Films biographiques. Form Streaming video Author Fitzgerald, Kieran, film director. Fitzgerald, Brendan (Film producer), film producer. Slattery-Quintanilla, Shane, film producer. Jones, Tommy Lee, 1946- narrator. Flores, Bobby (Musician), composer (expression) Heyoka Pictures, production company

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