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Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta - The Revolt of the Cockroach People

submitted by Warren E. Hale

(MrFisk)
1 decade 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago

Oscar Zeta Acosta (April 8, 1935 – 1974?) was an American attorney, politician and Chicano Movement activist, perhaps best known for his friendship with the American author Hunter S. Thompson, who included him as a character, the Samoan Attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his acclaimed novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. - wiki

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So, this is Oscar Acosta reading an excerpt from his book The Revolt of the Cockroaches. He tells the story of his initiation defending the Chicano. This particular passage examines the death of a young Chicano, inside jail walls, that was ruled a suicide. Acosta is allowed to exhume the body under the pretense of a fair reexamination. The family of the deceased allows Acosta to exhume the body for trial against the police, which is unjustly ruled as a suicide by the all white judges at the time.

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Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW2JTRiLQ34
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yonak6b2e5Y

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