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We Are All
Storytellers
Hector Galán
As told to Jane Bromley
Movement. “As the lights dimmed, That humble beginning changed his
the impact of the moment struck life.
me. The President of the United
States was intently absorbing the At the time, most Hispanic youth
history I had documented, the either went straight to work or to a
story I had told.” Hector’s mind technical school. “I really embraced
raced back to the 70s when he was the television production world, so
a student at Texas Tech where he I enrolled at Central Texas College
himself had been introduced to the in Killeen which, at the time, was
Chicano movement and the Raza a state-of-the-art TV school. My
Unida Party. It was also where his professor Dr. Dennis Harp was
television career of storytelling starting a Mass Communications
began. “Now decades later, I was in program at Texas Tech.” He saw
the White House watching one of potential in Hector and encouraged
my stories unfold. It was incredibly him to move to Lubbock to attend
humbling and exhilarating at the the new program. Even though no
same time.” one in his family had ever been to
college, he “wasted no time packing
“My interest in filmmaking began up.”
e are all storytellers. with my love of music. As a teenager
That is the message, the in San Angelo, I had embraced Since the new Tech student had
Wmission, the essence of the British Invasion, Motown, some television experience, he got
Hector Galán’s life. And the recent and the Monkees.” (Hector’s hired at KCBD Channel 11. “The
inductee into the West Texas Hall of dad was a WWII veteran, but he
Fame has perfected the art and the encouraged his son’s interest.
craft. “He was cool. He never got in
my way.”) “I experimented in a
In 1996, Hector’s film production garage band doing covers of Led
team was invited to the White Zepplin and Steppenwolf. My
House to screen his latest television goal was to become a radio DJ.”
series Chicano! History of the Instead, Hector found work as a
Mexican American Civil Rights cameraman at the local TV station. President Bill Clinton welcomes Hector to
the White House (1996)
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