In Forget the Alamo, three Texans prove that everything you think you know about that famous “last stand” is wrong.
An older gent in a cowboy hat was staring at him. “You’re a“It ain’t the dress, you limey faggot piece of dirt,” the man said. “That wall you’re relieving yourself on is the Alamo.”That Ozzy Osbourne peed on the Alamo became part of the Texas canon. It has inspired everything from exchanges in mainstream movies to journalistic investigations to an art installation in which a life-sized wax statue of Osbourne urinates on a wall once onlookers trigger an adjacent motion sensor.
Left: Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. Right: John Wayne , as Davy Crockett, in ‘The Alamo,’ directed by Wayne, 1960. Probably the first significant work of true revisionist scholarship was a book written in 1949 by an Anglo liberal in California named Carey McWilliams.was a sympathetic history of an “invisible people” just beginning to struggle to overcome centuries of Anglo oppression and discrimination. It notes how Mexican Americans at the time called the Texians “‘’: arrogant, overbearing, aggressive, conniving, rude, unreliable, and dishonest.
Revisionists through the early 1980s were enveloped in scorching denunciations—from the political right but also from the left. A case in point was the Chicano director Jesús Treviño’s 1982, a public television biopic of Juan Seguín. “I was interested in telling the Chicano side of American history, which both John Wayne and American textbooks have ignored,” Treviño said.
The Alamo is more than a Texas symbol, of course. It is an American touchstone as well, an emblem of national resolve, looming during the 1950s as an embodiment of U.S. determination to halt the spread of Communism. During the ’60s, Texas-bred president Lyndon Johnson repeatedly invoked it to generate backing for the war in Vietnam.
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