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Oral History

Oral History

Reactions in the BI community to Woodwards’ stand against exclusion – Mary Woodward (OH0087)

With Mary Woodward

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Woodwards’ reactions to Executive Order 9066 – Mary Woodward (OH0083)

With Mary Woodward

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First controversial news story – Mary Woodward (OH0080)

With Mary Woodward

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Early years at the Review – Mary Woodward (OH0079)

With Mary Woodward

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Walt and Milly’s background – Mary Woodward (OH0078)

With Mary Woodward

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Receives draft notice while in college, MIS training – Sada Omoto (OH0094)

With Sada Omoto

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Runs into Koba brothers – Earl Hanson (OH0069)

With Earl Hanson

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Receives draft notice in camp – Isao Yamashita (OH0029)

With Isao Yamashita

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Visiting mother in Minidoka – Taketo Omoto (OH0026)

With Taketo Omoto

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Drafted before war – Taketo Omoto (OH0025)

With Taketo Omoto

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Memorial on Bainbridge Island – Sada Omoto (OH0095)

With Sada Omoto

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Discrimination – Sally Kitano (OH0074)

With Sally Kitano

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Returning to school – Sally Kitano (OH0073)

With Sally Kitano

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Bainbridge Gardens – Junkoh Harui (OH0059)

With Junkoh Harui

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Supportive community – Frank Kitamoto (OH0046)

With Frank Kitamoto

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Conditions of family farm upon return, going back to school – Yae Yoshihara (OH0041)

With Yae Yoshihara

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Getting renter out, looking over shoulder – Kay Nakao (OH0023)

With Kay Nakao

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Help from Reverend Andrews – Vic Takemoto (OH0017)

With Vic Takemoto

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Help from nurse from Winslow clinic, restart farm – Michi Noritake (OH0011)

With Michi Noritake

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Evanston, IL for high school – Matsue Watanabe (OH0068)

With Matsue Watanabe

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Andrews’ home in Twin Falls – Brooks Andrews (OH0057)

With Brooks Andrews

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Farming with the “7–ups” – Yae Yoshihara (OH0040)

With Yae Yoshihara

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Work in fields, Reverend Andrews and church retreats – Michi Noritake (OH0010)

With Michi Noritake

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Farming, incidents in Caldwell – Jerry Nakata (OH0006)

With Jerry Nakata

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Camp correspondents and column in The Review – Mary Woodward (OH0086)

With Mary Woodward

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Manzanar Jello Party – Sally Kitano (OH0077)

With Sally Kitano

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Manzanar snakes – Sally Kitano (OH0076)

With Sally Kitano

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Manzanar family life got distorted – Sally Kitano (OH0071)

With Sally Kitano

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Manzanar, Mother worked in kitchen – Matsue Watanabe (OH0067)

With Matsue Watanabe

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Manzanar school – Matsue Watanabe (OH0066)

With Matsue Watanabe

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Manzanar barracks and bathrooms – Matsue Watanabe (OH0065)

With Matsue Watanabe

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Manzanar poor conditions – Nobi Omoto (OH0054)

With Nobi Omoto

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Minidoka playtime – Hisa Matsudaira (OH0050)

With Hisa Matsudaira

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Minidoka oil furnace, spit wads, smoking – Frank Kitamoto (OH0045)

With Frank Kitamoto

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Manzanar Loyalty Questionnaire, camp conditions – Frank Kitamoto (OH0044)

With Frank Kitamoto

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Manzanar/Minidoka Twin falls, nurse’s aide, swim in canal – Yae Yoshihara (OH0039)

With Yae Yoshihara

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Manzanar becoming Christian, 7–Ups, riot – Yae Yoshihara (OH0038)

With Yae Yoshihara

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Manzanar first day, initial reactions – Yae Yoshihara (OH0037)

With Yae Yoshihara

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Minidoka freedom in camp – Tats Kojima (OH0028)

With Tats Kojima

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Manzanar food – Iku Watanabe (OH0024)

With Iku Watanabe

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Manzanar first days, basic facilities, cleaning house – Kay Nakao (OH0022)

With Kay Nakao

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Manzanar arrival, food, winds – Vic Takemoto (OH0016)

With Vic Takemoto

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Manzanar barracks, work, rec hall, picnics – Michi Noritake (OH0009)

With Michi Noritake

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Paintings by Sada of four stages of evacuation – Sada Omoto (OH0091)

With Sada Omoto

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BI School District support of their Japanese American students – Mary Woodward (OH0089)

With Mary Woodward

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Friends say goodbye – Mary Woodward (OH0088)

With Mary Woodward

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Leaves work to say goodbye – Earl Hanson (OH0070)

With Earl Hanson

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Leaving on ferry followed by train ride – Matsue Watanabe (OH0064)

With Matsue Watanabe

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A young child’s view of evacuation – Hisa Matsudaira (OH0049)

With Hisa Matsudaira

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Saying goodbye, Coleman dock, train, bus – Yae Yoshihara (OH0036)

With Yae Yoshihara

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Manzanar first days, basic facilities, cleaning house – Kay Nakao (OH0021)

With Kay Nakao

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Describes feelings while leaving home – Vic Takemoto (OH0015)

With Vic Takemoto

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Leaving home, ferry ride, train ride – Michi Noritake (OH0008)

With Michi Noritake

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Tears in father’s eyes – Jerry Nakata (OH0005)

With Jerry Nakata

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What if Niseis said, “No, we won’t go” – Sada Omoto (OH0092)

With Sada Omoto

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Walt gives advice to some Nisei – Mary Woodward (OH0085)

With Mary Woodward

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Had to leave doll behind – Sally Kitano (OH0075)

With Sally Kitano

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Packing and what students think – Matsue Watanabe (OH0063)

With Matsue Watanabe

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Registering – Matsue Watanabe (OH0062)

With Matsue Watanabe

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Help from Filipino friends – Lilly Kodama (OH0055)

With Lilly Kodama

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Moneybelts – Nobi Omoto (OH0053)

With Nobi Omoto

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Shigata ga nai or “it cannot be helped” – Hisa Matsudaira (OH0051)

With Hisa Matsudaira

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Why BI first, why cooperated – Frank Kitamoto (OH0043)

With Frank Kitamoto

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JACL meetings, preparing to leave, arrangements for house and farm – Yae Yoshihara (OH0035)

With Yae Yoshihara

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Chaos, storage and loss, packing and what to wear – Kay Nakao (OH0019)

With Kay Nakao

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New home, destroyed Japanese things – Kay Nakao (OH0018)

With Kay Nakao

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Family prepares to leave – Vic Takemoto (OH0014)

With Vic Takemoto

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Help from Friends of Alliance Church – Michi Noritake (OH0007)

With Michi Noritake

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FBI inspects Omoto home – Sada Omoto (OH0093)

With Sada Omoto

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War hysteria in newspapers – Mary Woodward (OH0082)

With Mary Woodward

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Searched home inside and out – Sally Kitano (OH0072)

With Sally Kitano

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FBI in house, visits father in Seattle immigration office – Matsue Watanabe (OH0061)

With Matsue Watanabe

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Coming home from school – Tomi Egashira (OH0060)

With Tomi Egashira

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Father prays – Nobi Omoto (OH0052)

With Nobi Omoto

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Mother crying – Hisa Matsudaira (OH0048)

With Hisa Matsudaira

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Info on Justice Camps – Frank Kitamoto (OH0042)

With Frank Kitamoto

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Father wants to prove loyalty – Yae Yoshihara (OH0034)

With Yae Yoshihara

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FBI Roundups – Vic Takemoto (OH0013)

With Vic Takemoto

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Brother’s shotgun – Jerry Nakata (OH0003)

With Jerry Nakata

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Father taken, then reunited at end of war – Michi Noritake (OH0001)

With Michi Noritake

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Getting stuck in Seattle without citizenship papers – Sada Omoto (OH0090)

With Sada Omoto

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War Extra printed by the Review newspaper – Mary Woodward (OH0081)

With Mary Woodward

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Reactions back at school – Yae Yoshihara (OH0033)

With Yae Yoshihara

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Stuck in Seattle after travel restrictions were imposed – Yuki Takahashi (OH0030)

With Yuki Takahashi

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Treated differently at school – Tats Kojima (OH0027)

With Tats Kojima

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Out with friends riding bike, parents’ reaction, curfew – Kay Nakao (OH0020)

With Kay Nakao

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Only thought Isseis would go – Vic Takemoto (OH0012)

With Vic Takemoto

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Golfing, never heard of Pearl Harbor – Jerry Nakata (OH0004)

With Jerry Nakata

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Playing outdoors, picnics, grocery stores – Junkoh Harui (OH0058)

With Junkoh Harui

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Reverend Emery Andrews and his trips to BI in the Blue Box – Brooks Andrews (OH0056)

With Brooks Andrews

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Living off the land – Hisa Matsudaira (OH0047)

With Hisa Matsudaira

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Japanese Hall, school, farming, Caucasian friends – Yae Yoshihara (OH0032)

With Yae Yoshihara

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Life on the farm, picnics, Japanese films – Eiko Shibayama (OH0031)

With Eiko Shibayama

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Friends, Class ’41, Japanese school – Jerry Nakata (OH0002)

With Jerry Nakata

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Film clip from Port Blakely: Memories of a Mill Town – Sam Nakao (OH0096)

With Sam Nakao

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Integration of BI after the lumber mills closed

With Mary Woodward

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