In this video clip, you’ll hear from Frank Emi (1916–2010), one of the leaders of the FPC.
- Does he say he would take the same action again? Why or why not?
Frank S. Emi video interview (May 9, 2006), Japanese American National Museum, DiscoverNikkei.org
Transcript
No, I never felt that we did anything wrong. If we had to do it again, I probably would have done the same thing because— I don’t know why, but I felt that injustice that the government [was] perpetrating on us was so great. I just couldn’t reconcile the fact they would put us in there and then expect us to respond to the army just like all the people on the outside. That didn’t make sense.
This object is part of the story Wyoming's Largest Mass Trial, which is about Citizenship.