Jimmie Omura Interview Segment 18
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ddr-densho-1002-11-18 (Legacy UID: denshovh-ojimmie-01-0018)
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Testifying for the Tolan Committee as an outspoken critic of the JACL, and an opponent of mass removal
This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.
00:06:19 — Segment 18 of 25
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Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection
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Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection
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Courtesy of Emiko and Chizuko Omori
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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INTERVIEW ID
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INTERVIEW TITLE
Jimmie Omura Interview
02:29:25 — 25 segments
DATE
March 21, 1994
LOCATION
San Francisco, California
DESCRIPTION
Nisei male. Born November 27, 1912, on Bainbridge Island, Washington. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, moved to Denver and took a job as English Editor of a Japanese American vernacular newspaper, the Rocky Shimpo. As editor, wrote about and supported the Fair Play Committee in Heart Mountain concentration camp. Was charged and tried for conspiracy to counsel draft evasion, and was acquitted on the grounds of the First Amendment and freedom of the press. Mr. Omura was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Journalists Association.
(This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.)
PRODUCTION
Chizu Omori, interviewer; Emiko Omori, interviewer; Emiko Omori and Witt Mons, videographer
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CONTRIBUTOR
Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Emiko and Chizuko Omori
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.