Rob Roy MacGregor
April 15th, 2004, 02:13 AM
http://www.freedomalliance.org/view_article.php?a_id=357
Dulles, VA – Michael Eisner and Disney are at it again, this time re-writing history in the upcoming release of, “The Alamo,” scheduled to open nationally on April 9.
“The movie reads more like a Disney fairy tale and promotes a politically correct revisionist agenda aimed at destroying a traditional American hero,” says B. Forrest Clayton, Freedom Alliance Visiting Fellow, former history teacher and author of Suppressed History: Obliterating Politically Correct Orthodoxies. http://www.suppressedhistory.com
Clayton obtained a screenplay of the film and found it to be “full of inaccuracies.” For example, according to this film, Davy Crockett was a “frightened wanderer” who wanted to escape “over the wall” in the dark of night, but felt paralyzed and trapped by his own underserved heroic reputation.
The film also has Davy Crockett captured, bound, and executed on his knees, after the battle was over, even though the historical evidence shows that he was killed fighting, in the thick of combat, during the battle. This primary historical evidence includes the testimony of Sergeant Felix Nunez, a Mexican soldier who stormed the Alamo; Captain Rafael Soldana, another Mexican soldier who attacked the Alamo; Santa Anna’s cook, Ben; Travis’ slave, Joe; an African-American who survived the Alamo battle; and Susannah Dickinson, the only adult Anglo survivor of the Alamo battle and wife of one of the slain Alamo defenders.
The movie makers ignored these witnesses that corroborated Crockett’s heroic death in combat and based his capture and execution in the film on a suspect portion of Jose Enrique De La Pena’s supposed diary/memoir which handwriting expert Charles Hamilton proved was forged by John Laflin, a.k.a. John Lafitte, a prominent American forger of papers on American pirates and frontier heroes.
In addition, this film’s script portrays General Sam Houston, the military victor at the Battle of San Jacinto which allowed Texas to gain its independence from Mexico, as a venereal diseased drunkard; Colonel William Barret Travis, commander of Texan forces at the Alamo, as a dead beat dad and serial adulterer; Colonel James Bowie, the Alamo defender famous for his knife fighting skills, as a land swindling, slave trader; and Davy Crockett, the king of the wild frontier, as a war criminal, who participated in a My Lai style massacre in the Creek Indian War and was captured and executed at the Alamo. By contrast, Manuel Castrillon, a Mexican General who attacked the Alamo, is portrayed as a flawless, noble, and brave hero.
“Heroes, such as Davy Crockett, must be vigorously defended by all patriotic Americans in the culture war. They represent Western culture. To sit back and allow them to be desecrated is an injustice to American students and a recipe for disaster for the future of the country,” concluded Clayton.
Dulles, VA – Michael Eisner and Disney are at it again, this time re-writing history in the upcoming release of, “The Alamo,” scheduled to open nationally on April 9.
“The movie reads more like a Disney fairy tale and promotes a politically correct revisionist agenda aimed at destroying a traditional American hero,” says B. Forrest Clayton, Freedom Alliance Visiting Fellow, former history teacher and author of Suppressed History: Obliterating Politically Correct Orthodoxies. http://www.suppressedhistory.com
Clayton obtained a screenplay of the film and found it to be “full of inaccuracies.” For example, according to this film, Davy Crockett was a “frightened wanderer” who wanted to escape “over the wall” in the dark of night, but felt paralyzed and trapped by his own underserved heroic reputation.
The film also has Davy Crockett captured, bound, and executed on his knees, after the battle was over, even though the historical evidence shows that he was killed fighting, in the thick of combat, during the battle. This primary historical evidence includes the testimony of Sergeant Felix Nunez, a Mexican soldier who stormed the Alamo; Captain Rafael Soldana, another Mexican soldier who attacked the Alamo; Santa Anna’s cook, Ben; Travis’ slave, Joe; an African-American who survived the Alamo battle; and Susannah Dickinson, the only adult Anglo survivor of the Alamo battle and wife of one of the slain Alamo defenders.
The movie makers ignored these witnesses that corroborated Crockett’s heroic death in combat and based his capture and execution in the film on a suspect portion of Jose Enrique De La Pena’s supposed diary/memoir which handwriting expert Charles Hamilton proved was forged by John Laflin, a.k.a. John Lafitte, a prominent American forger of papers on American pirates and frontier heroes.
In addition, this film’s script portrays General Sam Houston, the military victor at the Battle of San Jacinto which allowed Texas to gain its independence from Mexico, as a venereal diseased drunkard; Colonel William Barret Travis, commander of Texan forces at the Alamo, as a dead beat dad and serial adulterer; Colonel James Bowie, the Alamo defender famous for his knife fighting skills, as a land swindling, slave trader; and Davy Crockett, the king of the wild frontier, as a war criminal, who participated in a My Lai style massacre in the Creek Indian War and was captured and executed at the Alamo. By contrast, Manuel Castrillon, a Mexican General who attacked the Alamo, is portrayed as a flawless, noble, and brave hero.
“Heroes, such as Davy Crockett, must be vigorously defended by all patriotic Americans in the culture war. They represent Western culture. To sit back and allow them to be desecrated is an injustice to American students and a recipe for disaster for the future of the country,” concluded Clayton.