Nationals". The grave is with two rows of caskets and not all of the bodies were buried the first day, but the caskets at the site did have an overnight guard. Woody Guthrie song, "Deportee" Singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie wrote a poem in 1948 lamenting the anonymity of the workers killed in the crash, identified only as "deportees" in media reports. When Guthrie's poem was set to music a decade later by college student Martin Hoffman, it became the folk song "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)". The song was popularized by Pete Seeger, and was subsequently performed by Arlo Guthrie Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Julie Felix, Cisco Houston, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Kelly, Martyn Joseph, The Byrds, Richard Shindell and Ani DiFranco among others. Aftermath Cesar Chavez, later to become founder of the United Farm Workers union, learned of the tragic crash while serving in the US Navy, helping convince him that farm workers should be treated "as important human beings and not as agricultural implements". The names of all the victims were published in local papers in 1948. In 2009, writer Tim Z. Hernandez began to seek out the gravesite and those names. With the help of others, by July 2013 all had been identified (some of the names were misspelled in the records), and the money raised for a more fitting memorial. On September 2, 2013 (Labor Day), a Deportee Memorial Headstone was unveiled at a mass in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Fresno attended by more than 600. The memorial includes all twenty-eight names of the migrant workers, which included three women, and one man born in Spain, not Mexico as widely reported. References External links Report - Civil Aeronautics Board - PDF Jason Daley: One Man's Search to Find the Families of the “Deportees” in the Famous Woody Guthrie Song Los Gatos DC-3 crash Airliner accidents and incidents in California Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash Accidents and incidents involving the Douglas C-47 Skytrain History of Fresno County, California