Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The grave of Jose Diaz, a 22-year-old man whose murder in 1942 led to the Zoot Suit riots but who has essentially been forgotten ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To the editor: Gustavo Arellano's column on Jose Diaz — whose killing in 1942 precipitated the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, a ...

PASADENA – Henry Ynostroza, who was among a group of 12 men wrongly convicted in the racially tinged Sleepy Lagoon murder case, has died. He was 82. Ynostroza died of natural causes Tuesday at a ...

Henry Leyvas and the kids from 38th Street in Los Angeles were no angels. No way ese. They raced cars, drank beer, and picked fights. The night 22-year-old Jose Diaz died, Leyvas probably helped start ...

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on Jose Diaz — whose killing in 1942 precipitated the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, a precursor to the following year’s Zoot Suit riots — was touching. I teach ...

Henry Leyvas and the kids from 38th Street in Los Angeles were no angels. No way ese. They raced cars, drank beer, and picked fights. The night 22-year-old Jose Diaz died, Leyvas probably helped start ...

Since that long ago summer night, the story of the Sleepy Lagoon has grown much larger than the rough-and-tumble kids who grew up near 38th Street in Los Angeles. The players are almost all dead now.