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Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings (ddr-densho-346-81)
Caption in album: "James-Rowe, Atty, formerly Dept of Justice."

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Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings (ddr-densho-346-82)
Caption in album: "James Rowe, Atty, formerly Dept of Justice."

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Interview with James Rowe, Assistant to the Attorney General (ddr-densho-67-83)
Interview with James Rowe, Assistant to the Attorney General. Rowe describes how Executive Order 9066 came about. The Justice Department had been opposed to evacuation but after a meeting with the War Department, Attorney General Francis Biddle changed his mind to support 9066. Rowe and others disagreed with this, but went along with 9066 to keep …

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Alien Enemy Program--So Far (ddr-csujad-19-51)
This is an article from the magazine "Common Ground," summer 1942, which talks about the classification of the Japanese American people as enemies after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It discusses about the Act of 1798 which states that an alien enemy is a person who is an alien who happens to have enemy nationality. See …