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\n Locally produced 1994 documentary by Los Angeles TV station KABC hosted by Tricia Takasugi about a project to bring two barracks from\n \n Heart Mountain\n \n , Wyoming, back to Los Angeles for display at the\n \n Japanese American National Museum\n \n (JANM). We see volunteers in Wyoming carefully dismantling the barracks, numbering them, and loading them onto trucks, then putting one back together in a parking lot across the street from JANM, where it will accompany the exhibition,\n \n America's Concentration Camps\n \n . The second barracks was used in the core exhibition in the museum's new building that opened six years later. Several volunteers who worked on the project are interviewed, as are some JANM staffers. (Some of the interview footage with Bacon Sakatani —as well as some footage and narration—is recycled from an earlier KABC documentary,\n \n \n Memories of the Camps\n \n \n [1992].)\n

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\n \n Authored by\n \n Brian Niiya\n \n , Densho\n \n
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\n Niiya, Brian\n
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\n Might also like\n \n \n Moving Walls: American Nightmare to American Dream\n \n \n (2017);\n \n \n The Legacy of Heart Mountain\n \n \n (2014);\n \n \n Heart Mountain: Three Years in an Internment Camp\n \n \n (1997)\n

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