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This is a newspaper article on John Alcala and his father Abel G. Alcala of Topeka. Abel Alcala, a veteran of World War II, had a draft number of 25. This likely made him the first Mexican-American drafted in the United States. The 1966 book "Among the Valiant" by Raul Morin, however, cited Pete Aguilar Despart with a lottery number of 158 as the first drafted Mexican-American. Fourteen years later, John Alcala contacted the book's publisher and the Topeka Capital-Journal to set the record straight.
Date: around 1980
Item Number: 89861
Call Number: 2015-118
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 89861
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1980s - 1980
Military - Wars - World War II
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
People - Hispanics
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
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