The police nearly catch up with him but he slides into the convoy of cars being escorted by the military. Dust flies as the military stop the pursuing police and allow the convoy of cars carrying the Honpa Buddhist Temple members to proceed and allowing James Garner and Dixie Seatle to escape again. Once we were on the scene, we were given clothes of the era including horn rimmed glasses. For some of us who were chosen to be drivers, it was an opportunity to drive an antique car. Our role was to ride in these vehicles and look sad, after all we had just been uprooted from our homes and evacuated for some place in the interior to a location and life of great uncertainty.
Movie makers shoot the same scene over and over.
About the time that it was getting monotonous driving forward about half a kilometer then backing up to repeat the scene, we were called inside to the mobile cookshack that opened to a long table. We were served a delicious Thanksgiving dinner complete with pumpkin pie, fresh fruit and all the trimmings. As soon as we had finished our dinner, we started to look for the famous actors to get their autographs. He signed all of our autograph books. In addition we got autographs from Billie Dee Williams along with that of his petite and pretty wife, Teruko.