THE HEART MOUNTAIN DRAFT RESISTERS

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Cases

Keegan v. United States, 325 U.S. 478 (1945).

Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944).

Okamoto v. United States, 152 F.2d 905 (10th Cir. 1946).

Fujii v. United States, 148 F.2d 298 (10th Cir. 1945).

United States v. Fujii, 55 F. Supp. 928 (D. Wy. 1944).

United States v. Kuwabara, 56 F. Supp. 716 (N.D. Cal. 1944).

Court Documents

Hearing Transcript, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. May 15, 1944).

Hearing Transcript, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. June 29, 1944).

Hearing Transcript, No. 4930, United States v. Okamoto (D. Wy. Aug. 31, 1944).

Stipulation as to Statement of Facts and Designation of Parts of Record To Be Included in:

Record on Appeal, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. Oct. 25, 1944).

Written Statement of Takeshi Hori of March 27, 1944, City Building, Cody Wyoming, Gov. Ex. 147, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. Oct. 25, 1944).

Testimony of FBI Agent Harry W. McMillen, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. Oct. 25, 1944).

Testimony of Assistant Director Douglas Todd, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. Oct. 25, 1944).

Letter of Minoru Tamesa of March 2, 1944 to Draft Board #3, King County, Kent, Washington, Ex. A, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. Oct. 25, 1944).

Letter of Takeo Ishikawa of February 25, 1944 to Local Board 112, Palo Alto, California, Ex. B, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. Oct. 25, 1944).

Letter of Takeo Ishikawa of March 20, 1944 to Local Board 112, Palo Alto, California, Ex. C, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. Oct. 25, 1944).

Letter of Jack Kiyoto Tono of February 24, 1944 to Local Board 112, Palo Alto, California, Ex. D, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. Oct. 25, 1944).

Notice of Appeal, Nos. 4928, 4931-92 Cr., United States v. Fujii (D. Wy. Oct. 25, 1944).

Books and Periodicals

Frank Seishi Emi, Draft Resisters at Heart Mountain, in Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Lawson Fusao Inada, Patricia Wakida, William Hohri eds., Heyday Books 2000).

Mike Mackey, Heart Mountain: Life in Wyoming’s Concentration Camp (Western History Publications 2000).

Eric L. Muller, Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (University of Chicago Press 2001).

Eric L. Muller, ed., with photography by Bill Manbo, Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II (University of North Carolina Press 2012).

iTVS, Conscience and the Constitution, https://itvs.org/films/conscience-and-the-constitution.

James Omura, Let Us Not Be Rash, Nisei America: Know the Facts, Rocky Shimpo Newspaper, February 28, 1944, http://www.pbs.org/itvs/conscience/resistance/rocky_shimpo/01_rash_i.html.

Michi Nishiura Weglyn and James A. Michener, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps (2008 edition) (originally published 1976).

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