"Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" is a protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie and music by Martin Hoffman detailing the January 28, 1948 crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles west of Coalinga in Fresno County, California. The crash occurred in Los Gatos Canyon and not in the town of Los Gatos itself, which is in Santa Clara County, approximately 150 miles away. Guthrie was inspired to write the song by what he considered the racist mistreatment of the passengers before and after the accident. The crash resulted in the deaths of 32 people, 4 Americans and 28 migrant farm workers who were being deported from California back to Mexico. Songs by Woody Guthrie in this collection: "Do Re Mi" "Gypsy Davy" "Hard Travelin" "Hard, Ain't It Hard" "Pastures of Plenty" "The Philadelphia Lawyer" "The Reuben James" "So Long, It’s Been Good To Know You" This Land Is Your Land "Union Maid" "Woody's Rag" It was recorded by Dave Guard and the Whiskey Hill Singers (1962), The Kingston Trio (1963), Cisco Houston (1963), Judy Collins (1964), Odetta (1964), The Brothers Four (1964), The Byrds (1969), Joan Baez (1971), Barbara Dane (1973), Arlo Guthrie (1974), Pete Seeger (1975), The Highwaymen (1985), Peter, Paul and Mary (1995), Bruce Springsteen (2000) and many others.