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Letter from the FCC to Francis Biddle (ddr-densho-67-76)
doc Letter from the FCC to Francis Biddle (ddr-densho-67-76)
Letter from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to Francis Biddle on radio signaling as described in DeWitt's Final Report. The FCC reviewed their records and found that there was no evidence of any illegal signaling during Dec. 1941 - July 1942. The FCC also refuted two other things that DeWitt told Biddle justifying evacuation - the …
Newspaper article on Shosuke Sasaki (ddr-densho-274-39)
doc Newspaper article on Shosuke Sasaki (ddr-densho-274-39)
Pacific Citizen article detailing the effort of many groups to recommend Shosuke Sasaki to a position with the Federal Communications Commission.
Memo Re: General DeWitt's report on the Japanese evacuation (ddr-densho-67-75)
doc Memo Re: General DeWitt's report on the Japanese evacuation (ddr-densho-67-75)
Memo from Francis Biddle to Harold Ickes on DeWitt's Final Report. Biddle informs Ickes that parts of DeWitt's report have been refuted by the Federal Communications Commission. Suggests that the information the government received about ship-to-shore signaling and other sabotage was inaccurate.
Pacific Citizen, Vol. 80, No. 9 (March 7, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-9)
doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 80, No. 9 (March 7, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-9)
Selected article titles: "VFW Post in Okinawa Push Evac. Reparation" (p. 1), "Topaz WRA Camp Monuments Set" (p. 1), "Japanese Day School Scheduled to Open This Fall in New York" (p. 1), and "Federal Communications Commission: Ruling the Air Waves and Waiving the Rules" (p. 3).
Letter from Francis Biddle to James Fly (ddr-densho-67-100)
doc Letter from Francis Biddle to James Fly (ddr-densho-67-100)
Letter from Francis Biddle to James Fly inquiring about the accuracy of DeWitt's Final Report. Biddle is concerned with the report because of its importance in evacuation decision and because Department of Justice investigations found it baseless. Biddle specifically wants to know if the Federal Communications Commission also investigated the alleged ship-to-shore contacting and if DeWitt …
Letter from G. E. Sterling, Assistant Chief Engineer and Chief, Radio Intelligence Division, Federal Communications Commission, to Willard E. Schmidt, Chief, Administrative Police, April 18, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-81)
doc Letter from G. E. Sterling, Assistant Chief Engineer and Chief, Radio Intelligence Division, Federal Communications Commission, to Willard E. Schmidt, Chief, Administrative Police, April 18, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-81)
Concerns an investigation into whether radiotelegraph signals originated from a transmitter in the vicinity of the Tule Lake incarceration camp; included is a page, presumably from a letter sent by Schmidt to Sterling on April 14th, 1944, describing Administration concerns about the Japanese Language School. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization …
Memo from Harry L. Black, Assistant Project Director, to Willard E. Schmidt, Chief of Police, re: disorders in Block #54, June 2, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-83)
doc Memo from Harry L. Black, Assistant Project Director, to Willard E. Schmidt, Chief of Police, re: disorders in Block #54, June 2, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-83)
Discusses imprisonment in the stockade of 12 incarcerees and tension concerning the Japanese Language Schools and the schools in the camps, detailing what it terms "terrorist tactics" on the part of the Japanese Language School's proponents and concluding that the Project Director is justified in using the stockade for disciplinary purposes. The document also includes the …
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