Summary

Ceremonies were carried out yesterday marking the 56th anniversary of FDR's executive order to send Japaneese-Americans from the West Coast to internment camps one of those camps located in Topaz, Utah

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 146213
Story Slug Topaz Remembrance (02/20/1998)
Location Topaz, Utah
Format Pkg
Date 02/20/1998
Archive Time 21:41
TRT 1:49
Supers EMBARGOED TO KUTV 0:30-0:35 Stuart Ishimaru, Parents Interned at Topaz 1:19-1:26 Bill Lann Lee, Acting Asst Attorney General John Daley, Reporting
Video Description Cu shot of barbed wire, wooden planks, archive footage of imprisoned Japanese-Americans, sot, man gets out of vehicle, black and white photos of newspaper headlines, sot, people walking through the desert, sots
Description Ceremonies were carried out yesterday marking the 56th anniversary of FDR's executive order to send Japaneese-Americans from the West Coast to internment camps one of those camps located in Topaz, Utah
Script LEAD: 56 Years ago yesterday, President Roosevelt ordered Japanese Americans into interment camps during World War Two One of the children of those forcefully imprisoned at the Topaz Internment Camp near Delta visited the site Reporter John Daley has the story SCRIPT: (MUSIC) Now, old wooden planks and rusted artifacts litter the desert floor Back then, 50-plus years ago, this spot was called Topaz--the prison home of Japanese Americans They were torn from their lives elsewhere, and their pain can be felt to this day It's a message not lost on this man, Stuart Ishimaru, who is making his first visit to what was Topaz (SOT) Ishimaru's mother was in Junior High--His father in high school when they were sent from the San Francisco Bay Area to Topaz for no reason other than that they were Japanese Americans (SOT) A civil rights lawyer--that's what Ishimaru is today He was part of the successful fight in Washington to redress those interned--to compensate those people for the years when they were imprisoned For his boss--Top Justice civil rights leader Bill Lann Lee, the visit also has an impact (SOT) It's because of such injustice that Lee adn Ishimaru say they've come to Utah--to remember what happened here (SOT) (MUSIC) A half a century later, at what once was Topaz, that lesson could be more clear
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