Fred Korematsu - Kathryn Korematsu Interview Segment 5
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ddr-densho-1000-181-5 (Legacy UID: denshovh-kfred_g-01-0005)
SEGMENT DESCRIPTION
Finding out about losing Supreme Court case: "I was upset"
Due to technical difficulties and conditions at the time of taping, there is loud background noise in this interview.
00:05:04 — Segment 5 of 21
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Densho Visual History Collection
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NARRATOR
Fred Korematsu
Kathryn Korematsu
INTERVIEW TITLE
Fred Korematsu - Kathryn Korematsu Interview
01:21:43 — 21 segments
DATE
May 14, 1996
LOCATION
Seattle, Washington
DESCRIPTION
This interview centers on the experiences of Fred Korematsu, a Nisei born January 30, 1919, in Oakland, California. Mr. Korematsu was working as a welder in San Francisco when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After Executive Order 9066 was issued in 1942, he decided to resist the evacuation orders, and was not removed with his family. He was arrested in May of 1942, taken to jail, and eventually transferred to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, where his family was being held. He legally challenged the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, and his case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the order in 1944. Following World War II, Mr. Korematsu moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he married and raised a family before returning to California. In the early 1980s, his case was reopened after the discovery of a crucial document indicating that in the original 1944 case, the federal government had lied to the high court. The conviction was vacated by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in 1983, and in 1998, Mr. Korematsu was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
(Due to technical difficulties and conditions at the time of taping, there is loud background noise in this interview.)
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Lorraine Bannai, interviewer; Tetsuden Kashima, interviewer; Matt Emery, videographer
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