Cleto Rodríguez's guest appearances

Cleto Rodríguez

Texas Originals

Sam Houston

Barbara Jordan

William Cowper

Jack Johnson

Scott Joplin

Alan Lomax

James Walker

Quanah Parker

Andy Adams

Bessie Coleman

George Thomas

Horton Foote

Stephen F. Austin

Belle Starr

Charles Franklin

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San Marcos native Cleto Rodríguez was born in 1923. By the age of nine, he had lost both his parents and was raised in San Antonio by relatives. Rodríguez began his military career in 1944 when he joined the Army. For his heroism in World War II, he received the nation's highest military honor, the Medal of Honor. Rodríguez was the fifth Mexican American ever to earn this honor—and one of fourteen Texans who earned it during World War II.