Recovering addict's apology to Mexican mothers

John Whitaker, a child actor who later became hooked on drugs, makes reparations to those who lost loved ones in the drug war south of the border.

The red-haired man who stepped onto the Olvera Street bandstand looked vaguely familiar, but it was his words that got my attention. John Whitaker, a 52-year-old Santa Clarita resident, was addressing a rally to raise awareness of cartel violence in Mexico, and he started off by apologizing to the Mexican mothers he'd just heard speak about losing children in the drug wars.

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