Significant People in the Japanese-American Internment Camps



DeWitt28.JPG Lieutenant John L. DeWitt

ROOOOSEVELT.jpg Franklin Delano Roosevelt

YAM.png Isoroku Yamamoto

KARL_B..jpg Karl R. Bendetsen

dickinson.jpgVelvalee Dickinson - Involved with Japanese Spying

HOOVWE.jpgJ. Edgar Hoover - FBI- Against internment of Japanese, wrote letter to Biddle
BIDDLE.jpgFrancis Biddle - FBI - For internment, against Hoover
fred_K.jpgFred Korematsu - Court case against internment of Japanese - Court ruled against

lawrence_carr.jpgRalph Lawrence Carr - Governor of Colorado - First elected official to publicly apologize for internment of Japanese. Cost him re-election, gained respect of Japanese citizens.

FORD.jpgGerald Ford

TOJO.jpegHideki Tojo