Roger Daniels interviewed by Kent Hori, part 3 of 4
PARTNER
Densho
Visit partner
OBJECT ID
ddr-densho-1007-1758
PARENT COLLECTION
Loni Ding Oral History and Film Research Collection
DESCRIPTION
Daniels discusses what may have happened if the Japanese American community resisted evacuation en masse, how Japanese Americans were placed under 4C (enemy alien, undraftable) status and the military's eventual interest in Japanese Americans (particularly Kibei) for intelligence work, the importance of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the loyalty questionnaire, the persecution and eventual pardoning of those who resisted the draft, Japanese Americans who served in the military, and whether something like evacuation could ever happen again. Audio only, intended to be paired with video. Interview starts at 0:53. Loni Ding can be heard directing the interview. Original title: 403, Roger Daniels III, camera rolls 76, 77, shots 610, 611, 612, 613, wild, 614, wild, 6-22-83. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1759/
00:28:38
DATE
June 22, 1983
LOCATION
OBJECT GENRE
Interviews
OBJECT FORMAT
Audio/Visual
TOPICS
- Arts and literature -- Performing arts -- Film -- Documentaries
- World War II -- Resistance and dissidence
- World War II -- Mass removal ("evacuation")
- World War II -- Military service -- 442nd Regimental Combat Team
- World War II -- Administration -- Registration and the "loyalty questionnaire"
- World War II -- Resistance and dissidence -- Draft resistance
- World War II -- "Enemy alien" classification
- World War II -- Military service -- 100th Infantry Battalion
- World War II -- Military service
- World War II -- Military service -- Military Intelligence Service
FACILITY
CREATORS
- Ding, Loni (director)
- Daniels, Roger (interviewer)
- Hori, Kent (interviewee)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of David Welsh, The Center for Educational Telecommunications (CET)
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.