Manufacturing "Military Necessity": Japanese American Internment During WWII by Patricia Sakurai

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066 which ultimately resulted in the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the west coast, Forty years later, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians found that the internment "was not justified by military necessity" but instead was the result of “race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership.” In this talk OSU Associate Professor Patricia Sakurai will consider the particular convergence of misinformation, political and business interests, news media, and longstanding anti-Asian sentiment and legislation that sat just below the surface of assertions of “military necessity” during the period.

The full transcript of Executive Order 9066 can be read here:  http://bit.ly/2rEHeUI (A shortened link to www.ourdocuments.gov)