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Paul Kitakagi, Jr's Personal Connection with Dorothea Lange

Host Nathan Masters and photographer Paul Kitakagi, Jr. visit the first grave at Manzanar, where Kitakagi explains the strange set of circumstances that led him to a jarring discovery of how Dorothea Lange played a role in his family's history at the incarceration camps.

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