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Title: Richard Murakami Interview
Narrator: Richard Murakami
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: South Bend, Washington
Date: May 12, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-mrichard-01-0036

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DG: Okay. So you went to camp in Tule Lake in the end of 1942, probably around summer or September.

RM: I thought it was around May, but I don't know.

DG: Then maybe you were one of early ones in Tule Lake.

RM: No. Well, we didn't go to -- where did they go first?

DG: Well, some people went to Pinedale.

RM: No, we didn't go to...

DG: You didn't go there.

RM: No. We went directly to...

DG: Was it hot? Was it summertime?

RM: Well, I thought it was in May, around May. I forgot.

DG: Well, then you would have been one of the first ones there.

RM: Could have been.

DG: And what -- do you remember what block you were in?

RM: Gee, 42. I don't know what it was. I thought it was 42, I'm not sure.

DG: Well, that's the year, but also the block you were in.

RM: That's what I thought it was.

DG: Okay, so that's sort of in the middle.

RM: Uh-huh.

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