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Q: Okay, and the guy just cane up and pit: a gun to your head
A: Yes anl said, "You turn around and go back." ht else =re you
go* to do (hU&s)
Q: Yes, Right. You were driving yaur car
A: Yes, I was driving my car.
Q: How many people =re with yau in a car
A: Well, we had four, there =re three other people. I don't r d r
their mm~s or an-, but I know there =re four. My dad was with E.
Q: Oh.
A: Hems on the front seat and m had tm other guys. Ican't ranember
dm they wre. That's been toa long ago.
Q: Yes. About how m y
cars Ere in that caravan
A: Oh, gee, I don't how. There ws a line. I couldn't say. I mldn't
how -tly, but: there m s an awful line, I'll tell you that.
Q: How many miles
A: Oh, I wuld say, talking about miles, I 'd say dlmost tm ndles of
cars just abaut. That's a pretty good caravan.
Q: Yes.
A: About tw miles of cars. Of course, they're apart you bow,
Q: E&t. Okay.
A: Because a lot of thaa didn't ever stop at that ballpark there muldn't
have been enough roan for than. Whoever wanted to stay overnight: was
having mre or less h. bk =re all young and everything.
of Side me, Tape One
Q: Mr. frbrris, the last the w talked, w talked a little bit about
your family. bhat do you how about your fdly's sumarrye
A: My dad's rime +as Maras, M-A-R-A-S, and vhen he came here £ram Faxope
ard got his citizen papers, they asked him his name. He said Mas, and
they just spelled it bbrris , that's the way it's been from there on.
Morris, M-O-R-R-1-S . Actually, it ' s M-A-R-A-S .
Q: Did they ask him then to Americanize it, or did he just decide to do
it on his om