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DH: Tell us about the riot at Manzanar.

IN: There were various causes for the riot in Manzanar, but the evening that it occurred, I was and another friend were down in the administration area, and then we saw these people. They had a meeting at one of the barracks way up higher up in the area, and they came... they weren't rushing. They just came in like they had a very... reason to come to the administration. They had a beef or something. And I said to my friend, "Hey, we better get out of here, there's going to be trouble tonight," so we left that area. And sure enough the soldiers that were down on the administration area and they had a confrontation, and they opened up with, the soldiers opened up with tear gas and shot several people. And more than one person died during that riot. But I myself was not in any particular trouble, but my dad went down to see what was going on and he got... [Laughs]

KN: Right in the middle of it practically. [Laughs]

IN: And he got into the tear gas and he just came running home or down to our barrack.

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