Saturday, April 20, 2013

At Washington's GALA Hispanic Theatre, telling Roberto Clemente’s story

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Roberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican baseball legend, played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and died at the age of 38 in a plane crash; he was en route to Nicaragua on a humanitarian aid mission. The Jackie Robinson of Puerto Rico inspired Luis Caballero, also a Puerto Rican native, to write and direct “DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story,” named for the icon and the plane in which he was killed—as Jessica Goldstein reports in this article for The Washington Post.


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