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Film Screening: "Farewell to Manzanar"

Film & Other Media
In Person
Japanese American National Museum
100 N Central Ave Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Date: Oct. 23, 2011

Time: 2 p.m.



In 1976, the TV film “Farewell to Manzanar,” based on the book by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, was broadcast on NBC. Rarely seen since, the film will be screened and, for the first time ever, DVD copies will be available through the Museum Store.

Join special guest, Director John Korty, for a Q&A following the screening.

$25 Members; $30 non-members, includes admission and a complimentary copy of the DVD.

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Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

If you can't make it to the screening, you can order a copy of the DVD from the Museum Store.


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