Stadium roar (60s): LSU Police Department Records, RG #A0205,
Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA.
Cindy Gould: You mentioned some people would escape?
Bautista Martinez: Oh yeah! Yeah!
Gould: Okay. Tell me some more about that.
Martinez: We decided that we wanted to go on Saturday nights to the football game in Baton Rouge. So, we got in touch with a worker here and if he knew of anybody down the road, friend of his, that would take us to the football game at night . . . on Saturday nights, you see. So he arranged it so we would catch . . . Go down the hole, you know, the end of the fence? That’s what we’d call the hole. Right in the end there, we had cut the wire there in a way that you could crawl through there, you see. So, that guy would come over there, and we’d turn around, and we’d get some newspapers and curl them up, see, and put them in the middle of the road and put some gravel on top from the road, you see. And when he come, he would stop there, because he knew we were there, see. And then that’s when we’d get out, and get in the car, and away we’d go, you see. And then we’d come in at night, after we . . . After we would go to the football game, then we’d maybe hit the bars in Baton Rouge. We’d go through the bars. [laughing]
-- Bautista Martinez, interviewed by Cindy Gould, 1991