DT: I think the most astounding thing to me was how ignorant the American press was about the internment. And I would talk to journalists, and they had no background on this. And when we first, when I first spoke to them, I had multiple responses from different reporters saying, "This happened in America? When did this happen?" And then other reporters thought these were involving Japanese prisoners of war. And I said, "No, these are American citizens." And they said, "That happened in America?"

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DT: And we just began to get priming them. And a lot of that was educating them that this had happened in the first place, getting the right people that would kind of be interested in the story. And it was intriguing to them on a number of different levels. I mean, for us it was our families, but that's not a national news story. The national news story was the government cover-up. And this is post Watergate, where a President had been impeached, and an attorney general had resigned rather than fire the independent investigator on a criminal action. And so the press were teed up, I would say, and they were interested in any type of massive government misconduct like this. And so that was very, very helpful, and that was really the story for them.

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