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Manufacturers because they were producing these fuel-efficient cars during a time when the country was going through an energy crisis. so vincent chin is in a bar celebrating his bachelor party with some friends and he gets into an altercation with two out of work auto workers who accuse him of of being japanese and taking their jobs. they get kicked out of the bar. they wait for vincent chin. when he he comes out, they chase him down and they beat him to death with a baseball bat. and those two men never served a single day in jail or prison. but that case did become the first ever civil righ...

Oil prices resulted in so many auto workers getting laid off, and japan was producing some fuel efficient cars, so a lot of hatred was directed and blamed to japanese automobile manufacturers. and at that time, anyone who looked like they could be japanese was targeted for assault, and so vincent chin, who was a chinese american man was out at a bar celebrating his bachelor party and two out of work auto workers got into an alte altercation with him. when vincent chin left, they followed him and beat him to death with a baseball bat. and those two men never served a single day in jail or priso...

>> for now lisa ling, host of "this is life with lisa ling" which as i said premieres this sunday on cnn. so lisa, that climate of anti-asian hate that you describe in the early 198 o's led to the horrific murder of an asian man that had a deep impact on you when you were a child. tell me why and why it's so important for you to tell this story now. >> well, aaron, this season of "this is life" we're doing something different, which is we are grounding every one of our episodes in an event or a story as part of american history that didn't make it into the history books. because i think it's r...

Chinese when you were very young. what were you hoping to uncover with this episode? >> well, jake this season, our season eight, we're doing something a little different, which is we are grounding every one of our episodes in a moment in american history that didn't make it into the history books because so often you can make a connection to those moments and what we're experiencing today, and we highlight the story of vincent chin who is a young chinese american man who in the 1980s during the economic downturn, particularly in the automobile industry in detroit was accused of being japanese...