Radio Report on Tule Lake
date: label: date made
content: November 13, 1943
notes: label: Description
content: This radio report was issued by Dillon S. Myer, the director of the War Relocation Authority, and contains information about the Tule Lake Concentration Camp and its use as a segregation camp for "disloyal" or "hostile" Japanese Americans. The report vaguely describes what has come to be known as the Loyalty Questionnaire, in which all Japanese Americans were asked to fill out a form that would prove their loyalty or lack thereof. There were two crucial questions that involved participation in war efforts, and disbanding any loyalty to Japan and its Emperor, if a prisoner answered "no" to any of these questions, they were deemed disloyal and sent to Tule Lake. The report also details an account of a protest from the incarcerated at Tule Lake, as well as the building of the site.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janice Faden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3050.07
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3050
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3050.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: report
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm