The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (2007)
Release Date: Apr 27, 2007 Wide
Release Date: Apr 27, 2007 Wide
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In 1997, a group of United States Marines had been assigned to help guard the border between Texas and Mexico, looking for smugglers as part of the federal government's ongoing war on drugs. While on patrol, one of the Marines shot and killed Esequiel Hernandez Jr., mistaking him for a border jumper while the young man tended his family's goats. Hernandez had the dubious distinction of becoming the first American citizen to be killed by U.S. military forces on domestic soil since the Kent State
Apr 27, 2007 Wide
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