Densho Digital Archive
Frank Abe Collection
Title: James Omura Interview II
Narrator: James Omura
Interviewers: Frank Abe (primary); Frank Chin (secondary)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: August 1993
Densho ID: denshovh-ojimmie-03-0009

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FA: At your trial, you were tried along with the Fair Play Committee but you had different attorneys. When the verdict comes down, they were convicted, you were acquitted. How, at that moment, do you remember, how did you feel? What thoughts went through your mind?

JO: When I was acquitted, I felt I was justified. But before I went to trial, there was a letter from the prosecuting attorney to the FBI branches, Denver, stating he had no evidence, and yet he went to trial because he was being pushed by the assistant attorney general Tom Clark.

FA: When the verdict came down, can you give me any sense of how you felt, your feelings? Happy, sad, angry, mad, glad?

JO: Well, I just felt like I, that the verdict was just.

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