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Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Jun Ogimachi Interview
Narrator: Jun Ogimachi
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Helendale, California
Date: June 3, 2010
Densho ID: denshovh-ojun-01-0018

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RP: I was gonna ask you, did your mom ever apply to become a citizen of the United States?

JO: Oh yeah, she wasn't a... when was it? The first was it 1954? You remember when my mother got her citizenship? Same time you did?

Off camera: What?

JO: Did you, do you remember when you got your citizenship paper?

Off camera: Citizenship?

JO: Yeah, what year? I don't know.

RP: I think it was around 1952.

JO: No... well she, she got it right at... it might have been like that. That was, it was right after, shortly after they authorized it. I don't know when it was. And she got hers... when did you get yours?

Off camera: Huh? Oh, okay. Naturalization certificate?

JO: I got it...

Off camera: When... okay, date, April 15, 1955.

JO: Oh, 1955. So my mother had got it before that.

RP: Okay.

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