Japanese-American relocation reviewed
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interview conducted 1969-1973 by Rosemary Levenson, Amelia Fry and Miriam F. Stein for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1976 :
Contributors: Levenson, Rosemary.; Masaoka, Mike, 1915-; Rowe, James H. 1909-1984.; Myer, Dillon S. 1891-; Heckendorf, Percy C., 1898-1975.; Clark, Tom C. 1899-1977.; Ennis, Edward.; Wenig, Herbert.; Cozzens, Robert.; Kingman, Ruth W. 1900-; Hibi, Hisako.; Andrews, Lila Juliet.; Fry, Amelia R.; Stein, Mimi.; Frayne, Pat.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Earl Warren Oral History Project (Bancroft Library)
Published: 1969
Subjects: Warren, Earl, 1891-1974; California. Office of the Attorney General; United States. War Relocation Authority; United States. Dept. of Justice; United States. Army; California. Dept. of Professional and Vocational Standards; Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War, 1939-1945; California -- Politics and government
Other titles: Japanese American relocation reviewed
Description: Interviews with individuals primarily in the federal and state government, involved in the evacuation of Japanese-Americans from California during World War II. Photographs and copies of documentary material inserted and appended. V. 1, Decision and Exodus; v. II, the Interment.

James Rowe, The Japanese Evacuation Decision (Dillon Myer also participating in the interview); Percy C. Heckendorf, Planning for the Japanese Evacuation and Reforming Regulatory Agency Procedures, which also comment on his career as state director of professional and vocational standards; Tom C. Clark, Comments on the Japanese-American Relocaiton; Edward Ennis, A Justice Department Attorney Comments on the Japanese-American Relocation: Herbert Wenig, The California Attorney General's Office, the Judge Advocate General Corps and Japanese-American Relocation.

Robert Cozzens, Assistant National Director of the War Relocation Authority (Pat Frayne also participating in one interview); Dillon S. Myer, War Relocation Authority: the Director's Account; Ruth Kingman, The Fair Play Committee and Citizen Participation. Also included in v. II: photographs of Hisako Hibi's paintings of the Tanforan Assembly Center and Topaz Relocation Center; and, in the Appendix, photocopy of typed transcript of interview with Lila J. Andrews re her visit to the Minidoka Relocation Center.
Table of contents: title: Rowe interview, Reel 1: Mar. 1, 1971, track 1: 1045 ft., track 2: 348 ft..; title: Heckendorf interviews: Reel 2: May 22, 1972, track 1: 1024 ft., track 2: 319 ft. Reel 3: May 23, 1972, track 1: 1027 ft., track 2: 445 ft.; title: Clark interview, Reel 4: Aug. 12, 1972, track 1: 1059 ft., track 2: blank; title: Ennis interview, Reel 5: Dec. 20, 1972, track 1: 730 ft., track 2: 338 ft.; title: Wenig interview, Reel 6: Dec. 26, 1973, track 1: 1019 ft., track 2: 582 ft.; title: Cozzens interviews: Reel 7: Nov. 16, 1970, track 1: 1026 ft., track 2: 114 ft. (tape defective). Reel 8: copy of reel 7, track 1: 719 ft., track 2: 81 ft. Reel 9: Apr. 14, 1971, track 1: 982 ft., track 2: 982 ft. Reel 10: Apr. 14, 1971, track 1: 841 ft., track 2: blank. Reel 11: May 21, 1971, track 1: 904 ft., track 2: 182 ft.; title: Myer interview, Nov. 6, 1969. Reel 12: track 1: 47-730 ft., track 2: 704 ft. Reel 13: track 1: 727 ft., track 2: 383 ft.; title: Kingman interviews: Reel 14: Feb. 1, 1971, track 1: 1035 ft., track 2: 932 ft. (poor recording) Reel 15: Feb. 9, 1971, track 1: 1048 ft., track 2: 1048 ft. Reel 16: Feb. 16, 1971, track 1: 43-1046 ft., track 2: 1048 ft. Reel 17: track 1: Feb. 16, 1971, 274 ft., track 2: Feb. 18, 1971, 404 ft.; title: Phonotapes :