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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1012-2-15)

Reflections on wartime experiences and the government's decision to incarcerate Japanese Americans (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and …

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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1012-2-3)

Hearing about the bombing of Peal Harbor (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in …

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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1012-2-1)

Family background (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of …

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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1012-2-13)

Deciding to enter into an interracial marriage (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in …

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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1012-2-10)

Community responses to mass removal: discussion of reasons more people didn't resist (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and …

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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1012-2-12)

The significance of the coram nobis cases (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in …

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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1012-2-11)

Memories of jail: reunited with parents (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this …

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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1012-2-16)

Receiving support in wartime stand (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material …

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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1012-2-8)

Watching family and friends leave for camp (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in …

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vh Gordon Hirabayashi Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1012-2-7)

Circulating a written statement detailing reasons for resistance (audio only)

This interview is audio-only. It contains raw footage used by Steven Okazaki in his 1985 film Unfinished Business.

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1012-2-7/

Narrator Jim Hirabayashi

Nisei male. Born October 30, 1926, in small town of Thomas, Washington, on family farm. Attended school in Auburn, Washington, before being removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to work in Idaho, and was subsequently joined by family. Postwar, became a social anthropologist, and later became only the …

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img Outside of the courthouse during Gordon Hirabayashi's hearing (ddr-densho-10-70)

The hearing was held in Seattle, Washington in front of Judge Donald S. Voorhees.

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img Outside of the courthouse during Gordon Hirabayashi's hearing (ddr-densho-10-76)

The hearing was held in Seattle, Washington in front of Judge Donald S. Voorhees.

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img Outside of the courthouse during Gordon Hirabayashi's hearing (ddr-densho-10-72)

The hearing was held in Seattle, Washington in front of Judge Donald S. Voorhees.

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doc Letter from Jean M. Gordon to Agnes Rockrise (ddr-densho-335-351)

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img Robert Hanashiro and Gordon Honda wearing hard hats (ddr-densho-336-745)

The 1976 Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camp.

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doc Suggestions for resolutions about evacuees of Japanese ancestry (ddr-csujad-18-4)

Presents arguments and supporting "data" to assert that the claim that "America is a white man's country" is "un-American"; that the Government must make a greater effort to supply housing and financial aid for people who are resettling; that those opposing resettlement are "making a mockery of our war aim to ensure justice and freedom"; and …

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Form letter sent to Japanese American community members from Gordon Hirabayashi and Cherry Kinoshita of the Community Committee on Redress/Reparations (ddr-densho-383-498)

doc Form letter sent to Japanese American community members from Gordon Hirabayashi and Cherry Kinoshita of the Community Committee on Redress/Reparations (ddr-densho-383-498)

Encouraging community members to participate in the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings in person or in writing. Pages 2 and 3 contain response from George Tokuda.

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img William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury speaking in the Royal Albert Hall (ddr-njpa-1-89)

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doc Letter to Gorden Yoshikawa from John Glenn (ddr-chijacl-1-418)

Concerning S. 1647

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doc Letter to Gorden Yoshikawa from Bill Gradison (ddr-chijacl-1-417)

Concerning bills HR 1129 and HR 1924

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doc Note from Gordon Hirabayashi in support of Open Letter to Hayakawa (ddr-densho-122-340)

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img Captain Abie Gordon returns Bizen Osafune heirloom sword to Isamu Nagano (ddr-densho-1007-242)

Caption and newspaper clipping on back.

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doc Memo regarding sewing project (ddr-densho-356-902)

Memo from Samuel Gordon to John J. O. Moore regarding the sewing project status, employment and requests to review employee's requests to work from home. Item stapled together with ddr-densho-356-887, 890, 902, 906 and 907.

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Narrator Gordon Hirabayashi

Nisei male. Born April 23, 1918, in Seattle, Washington. Spent most of his childhood in Thomas, Washington, where his parents were part of a Christian farming co-op. Attended the University of Washington where he was active in the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), the conscientious objector movement, and became a Quaker. At the outbreak of World …

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