Woody Guthrie's poetry protested their anonymity. Who were they?
By Diana Marcum
Reporting from Coalinga, Calif.
JULY 9, 2013

... On Jan. 28, 1948, a plane chartered by U.S. Immigration Services left Oakland carrying 32 people, including 28 Mexicans. Many were part of the bracero program and had finished their government-sponsored work contracts ... An engine exploded. A wing broke off ... There were no survivors ...

In 2011, Carlos Rascon, the new director of cemeteries for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, visited the old Holy Cross graveyard. He noticed a bronze marker that read: "28 Mexican citizens who died in an airplane accident" ...

"I'm looking for the names of 28 deportees," Hernandez told him in a phone call last year.

"I have the names," Rascon replied ...

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-deportees-guthrie-20130710-dto-htmlstory.html

From your link:
.."They're answering Woody's prayer," Nora Guthrie said. "If you keep the questions — the ideas — alive, then someday, someone will come along to answer. My father sang, 'All they will call you will be deportees.' This is a back-atch'ya. A resounding 'No, we all have names.' "

The stone will be etched with 32 falling leaves, four of them bearing the initials of the Americans who died on the flight. In the center will be 28 names:

Miguel Negrete Álvarez. Tomás Aviña de Gracia. Francisco Llamas Durán. Santiago García Elizondo. Rosalio Padilla Estrada. Tomás Padilla Márquez. Bernabé López Garcia. Salvador Sandoval Hernández. Severo Medina Lára. Elías Trujillo Macias. José Rodriguez Macias. Luis López Medina. Manuel Calderón Merino. Luis Cuevas Miranda. Martin Razo Navarro. Ignacio Pérez Navarro. Román Ochoa Ochoa. Ramón Paredes Gonzalez. Guadalupe Ramírez Lára. Apolonio Ramírez Placencia. Alberto Carlos Raygoza. Guadalupe Hernández Rodríguez. Maria Santana Rodríguez. Juan Valenzuela Ruiz. Wenceslao Flores Ruiz. José Valdívia Sánchez. Jesús Meza Santos. Baldomero Marcas Torres."

September 02, 2013|By Diana Marcum

FRESNO — In an old cemetery, where few headstones have been added since the '50s, a large crowd gathered .. for a memorial that was 65 years in the making and shepherded home by a Woody Guthrie song.

"Today we are here to right a wrong," said Fresno Roman Catholic Bishop Armando X. Ochoa ...

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/02/local/la-me-deportees-20130903

The People Behind Guthrie's 'Deportee' Verses
March 28, 201312:00 PM ET

... HERNANDEZ: Well, the song itself - it wasn't my idea to update that song. That, right there, is the idea of Lance Canales, who's also from the San Joaquin Valley, in Fresno County, as well; the son of a migrant farm worker, just like myself. And when I finally had this list of names, I took them to Lance Canales and I said - you know - what might we do with this? And he said - you know - I can redo the song, and I think the time is right. And we recorded that song, now with the names being read ...