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vh Robert Coombs Interview (ddr-densho-1000-146)

White male. Born May 26, 1918, in Visalia, California. Attended school in Sacramento, California, and then enrolled in the University of Southern California. Involved in the development of the new progressive education theory at Stanford University in the 1930s, and was teaching high school in Sacramento, California when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Worked as a teacher …

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Narrator Robert Coombs

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-146-25)

As Minidoka concentration camp closed, leaving for a teaching job in California

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-146-4)

Growing up with exposure to a few different ethnic groups in school

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-146-14)

Traveling to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, choosing to live within the camp itself

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 32 (ddr-densho-1000-146-32)

Thoughts on September 11, 2001

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-146-5)

Attending junior high and high school in "bungalow schools"

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-146-1)

Family background: parents met and married in Los Angeles, California

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-146-29)

Observing a youth services program in California, postwar

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-146-13)

Encountering mixed reactions when telling others of decision to teach at Minidoka concentration camp

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-146-17)

Description of the incarcerated children working out on neighboring sugar beet farms; physical description of school conditions

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-146-16)

Participating in a new style of education, teaching core classes at Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-146-22)

Encouraging Japanese American students to believe in a positive future

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-146-15)

First impressions of Minidoka; meeting Jerome Light

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-146-8)

Participating in the development of the new progressive education theory at Stanford University

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-146-30)

Reaction to hearing about the redress and reparations received by Japanese Americans: "it's about time"

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-146-28)

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-146-31)

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-146-7)

Learning to be self-sufficient while attending the University of Southern California

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-146-10)

Memories of December 7, 1941: "it was a shock"

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-146-3)

Fond memories of grade school: "your teachers were your friends"

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-146-21)

Thoughts on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-146-19)

Description of a typical day of teaching in Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-146-26)

Thoughts on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: "that bomb is still a horrible thing"

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vh Robert Coombs Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-146-12)

Being accepted to teach at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho: "I was thrilled"

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