Unlike John Christopher Bain, 58, a mortgage broker, and his wife, Victoria Fox, 55, a teacher, who also died in the California wildfires, we are unlikely to learn the names of these victims.
It brings to mind another tragedy. On January 29, 1948, a plane crashed near Los Gatos Canyon, killing four Americans and 28 migrant Mexican workers who were being deported from California. The newspaper reported the names of the dead Americans, but not the Mexicans, who were buried in a mass grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fresno, California. The discrepancy led Woody Guthrie to write “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).”
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