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<p>Texas Rangers orchestrated the killing of 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys in a Texas border town in 1918. Monica Muñoz Martinez describes this as part of a pattern of state-sanctioned racist violence in the state, which her organization Refusing to Forget is working to commemorate. </p>
Evidence unearthed at the site of the Porvenir Massacre in recent years, bullets and shell casings left in the desert, raise a troubling question: Did the U.S. Army participate in the killing?
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’
Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record Mike OâConnor was born February 28, 1943 to Perry and Opal OâConnor in the Panama Canal Zone. He died of pancreatic cancer on February 1, 2021. Mike grew up in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He first attended New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, and received a degree in English from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, in 1965. He pursued a juris doctorate at the University of Wyoming Law School but quickly realized he had higher, yet more grounded, aspirations than the law. He permanently relocated to Marfa in the early 1970s.Attracted to the ...