APM Reports "Order 9066: Chapter Three"

Specials | Aug 17, 2018

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, just months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced from their homes on the West Coast and sent to one of ten "relocation" camps, where they were imprisoned behind barbed wire for the length of the war. Two-thirds of them were American citizens.

After the Allies won WWII, the prison camps were shut down. This final chapter describes the process of leaving camp, and how many former prisoners found themselves unwelcome in their home communities. You will also hear stories of people who flourished in post-war America, and those whose lives were destroyed by Order 9066. 

Order 9066 is produced as a collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

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