Luis J. Rodriguez interview

By age 12, Luis J. Rodriguez was already a veteran of East LA gang warfare. By 18, he had seen it all--poverty, drugs, murder, suicide--25 of his friends had been killed. But he managed to escape the cycle of violence by turning to reading an poetry. He is now the award-winning author of "Always Running," a book he wrote in an--unsuccessful--effort to keep his son out of gangs and to try to save future generations.