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Title: Henry Miyatake Interview II
Narrator: Henry Miyatake
Interviewer: Tom Ikeda
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: May 4, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-mhenry-02-0013

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TI: I wanted to go back and ask. You mentioned how Mrs. Pollock encouraged you to not only do research but to specifically find out what the Truman committee had said about their, their, their visit to the camp. I was curious what her reaction was when she found out what they had written.

HM: Well the librarian at the school, high school library was very cooperative with me because, you know, here's a crazy young kid that is trying to research some of this material and asking for copies of the Congressional Record and all this kind of stuff. And I would take the, I think it was ten cents for the Congressional Record, for a copy at that time. And I would pay for the... before we would ask for the copies I would make sure that these areas were covered under the certain dates of the Congressional Record. And after I received them and she, she was kind enough to process the thing for me. So I would bring my ten cents per copy request to her and she would pay the postage and rest of the stuff and they would get the copies. They would read it themselves and then, then pass it on to me and I would pass it on to Mrs. Pollock. And Mrs. Pollock was kind of interested in it because she wanted to find out what the single thread process of the things we were doing, came up in the Congressional Record. And she, she was kind of appalled at what they were saying. And she says, "Well they're describing the administrative dining room," she says to me. So that's when I got the true revelation of what had transpired. I don't think those members of that investigation team ever came into the camp. If they did, they might had gone to the administrative area only.

TI: I'm curious. The, the research you did in this case. Was that ever publicized to the rest of the members or people inside the camp? Did it like come out in the Irrigator or places like that?

HM: No, I don't think so. Nothing came about of that, after that.

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