For online access to many of the primary
documents used in our PBS documentary, please visit www.pbs.org/conscience .
Posted below are links to other primary documents and resources.
JACL response to incarceration and test cases
JACL Bulletin #142 / RE: TEST CASES / April 7, 1942
"Nisei, Your Move Next" /
editorial in the Minidoka Irrigator, camp newspaper of Minidoka Relocation
Center, Hunt, Idaho /
November 25, 1942
Resistance at Heart Mountain
"Congress Should Compensate Those Wronged" /
essay by Kiyoshi Okamoto / early 1944
"Loyalty Is A Covenant" /
essay by Kiyoshi Okamoto / early 1944
"We Should Know" /
essay by Kiyoshi Okamoto / February 25, 1944
Letter of protest to draft boards / early 1944
Fair Play
Committee Bulletin #1
Fair Play
Committee Bulletin #2
Fair Play
Committee Bulletin #3
"Let
Us Not Be Rash " /
editorial by James Omura in the Rocky Shimpo / February 28, 1944
"Wyoming Draft Resistance Has Authorities Stumped" /
Rocky Shimpo / Friday, March 10, 1944
Paul Nakadate letter to the editor / Heart Mountain Sentinel / March 18, 1944
Frank Emi letter to the editor / Heart Mountain Sentinel / March 19, 1944
"Camp Disturbance Pending" /
Rocky Shimpo / Monday, March 20, 1944
Fair Play Committee meeting notes / Wednesday, April 5, 1944
Letter from James Omura to Kiyoshi Okamoto / April 10, 1944
Letter from Fair Play Committee to James Omura / April 19, 1944
Letter from Kiyoshi Okamoto to Fair Play Committee / Sunday, May 7, 1944
Letter from James Omura to Jimmie Akutsu / July 10, 1944
Editorials against the resistance
Heart Mountain Sentinel
T rial of the 63 resisters
Verdict form in trial of 63 resisters/ June 26, 1944
"63 Japs Are Given 3-Year Terms in Pen" /
Wyoming Eagle / June 27, 1944
Trial of the seven Fair Play Committee leaders and journalist James Omura
Verdict form in trial of FPC leaders / November 2, 1944
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