With a bludgeoned body and lungs full of seawater, Oscar Gomez was found along the shores of Santa Barbara, California on November 17, 1994. Oscar was 21 years old, a Xicano activist and radio DJ. He was also my friend. Oscar used his radio program to educate and entertain everyone who heard him. People loyally listened, from those locked up behind bars, to the youngsters in the neighborhood, to the old timers working the agricultural fields of Yolo County. Oscar was at UC Santa Barbara covering a Chicano Studies Department protest, when he was killed. It was also 2 weeks after the historical anti-immigrant initiative, Prop 187, had passed by an overwhelming majority in California. People believe what took that place that fatal night was an accident, others a premeditated murder and some say a conspiracy by the authorities. But who would have wanted to kill Oscar? Radio Bandido explores Oscar’s life, his murder and the Chicano political turmoil of California in the 1990’s that transformed Oscar from a football jock into an important DJ activist known as “Bandido”.