Week # 44-99, Air Date 10/31/1999 - 11/6/1999

No news segment.

Segment #1: 'WRITER JULIA ALVAREZ' (5:00) Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with novelist and poet Julia Alvarez about how her immigrant experience from the Dominican Republic has affected her work.

Subject Types: Arts - Literature; Immigration

Locations: Non-U.S. Regions -Caribbean; Caribbean Countries - Dominican Republic

Segment #2: 'HECTOR LAVOE REMEMBRANCE'' (5:55) Mandalit del Barco in New York pays tribute to one of salsa's musical superstars Hector Lavoe who died June 29th 1993.

Subject Types: Arts - Music

Locations: U.S. Regions - Northeast; States - New York

Segment #3: 'CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY QUINN' (9:18) Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa spoke with veteran actor Anthony Quinn in 1995 about his remarkable life and film career. Quinn had just published an autobiography entitled 'One Man Tango.'

Subject Types: Arts - Literature; Arts - Visual

Segment #4: 'D-DAY: LETTERS FROM A SOLDIER'(4:28) In memory of the soldiers who died on D-Day, we feature excerpts from Private Francisco Alfredo Rocha's letters, who wrote frequently from the front in 1944 to his wife and children.

Subject Types: History