"The soldiers were the ones that were crying." (Walt Woodward)

Walt was a young publisher of the Bainbridge Island Review when World War II started. Although it caused him to lose advertisers, Walt published a weekly article about life inside the camps written by various Bainbridge Islanders incarcerated at Manzanar and Minidoka. This press coverage helped make Bainbridge Island more welcoming to Japanese Americans when they returned after the war. In this interview, Walt recalls a scene from 1942, when Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island, Washington, were being loaded on trains in Seattle.


This clip is an excerpt from Walt Woodward's oral history interview conducted May 11, 1998 (denshovh-wwalt-01-0006). To see the complete interview, visit the Densho Digital Archive (http://www.densho.org/archive).

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