JOHN L. DEWITT

Initially when the World War II idea of evacuating Japanese Americans from the West Coast was proposed, General De Witt and replied, “Damned nonsense!”

This racist officer was the impetus for one of the terrible wrongs in American history but most of the national establishment and FDR himself signed off on it to his everlasting disgrace. See {587961} and {635792}.

This report was submitted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who accepted the recommendation and signed Executive Order 9066. The Japanese on the West Coast were then rounded up and interned by DeWitt in what was one of the lowest and disgraceful points in American history. A national apology was made 34 years later. See {635792}. One of the aspects of the case that made it so disgraceful is that these facts that a senior General attested to the President were not true. And tragically, the General was aware of that fact when he made his aware of the risk than he, so be it. The reality was that the FBI and the Signal Corps had investigated these charges and found that there was not a singe case of sabotage by American Citizens of Japanese origin and there were no cases of signals to the Japanese. Some garbled radio report and recommendations. However, he was an inveterate racist and believed that the Japanese American citizens could not be trusted, and if some eggazeration was needed to convince people less messages were traced to American military trainees under De Witt’s command who while in training had send messages that were not decipherable. For examples of De Witt’s racism. See {587961}. and {587962}.

This report was submitted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who accepted the recommendation and signed Executive Order 9066. The Japanese on the West Coast were then rounded up and interned by DeWitt in what was one of the lowest and disgraceful points in American history. A national apology was made 34 years later. See {635792}.

This report was submitted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who accepted the recommendation and signed Executive Order 9066. The Japanese on the West Coast were then rounded up and interned by DeWitt in what was one of the lowest and disgraceful points in American history. A national apology was made 34 years later. See {635792}.

This racist officer was the impetus for one of the terrible wrongs in American history but most of the national establishment and FDR himself signed off on it to his everlasting disgrace. See {587961} and {635792}.

Initially when the World War II idea of evacuating Japanese Americans from the West Coast was proposed, General De Witt and replied, “Damned nonsense!”

This report was submitted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who accepted the recommendation and signed Executive Order 9066. The Japanese on the West Coast were then rounded up and interned by DeWitt in what was one of the lowest and disgraceful points in American history. A national apology was made 34 years later. See {635792}. One of the aspects of the case that made it so disgraceful is that these facts that a senior General attested to the President were not true. And tragically, the General was aware of that fact when he made his aware of the risk than he, so be it. The reality was that the FBI and the Signal Corps had investigated these charges and found that there was not a singe case of sabotage by American Citizens of Japanese origin and there were no cases of signals to the Japanese. Some garbled radio report and recommendations. However, he was an inveterate racist and believed that the Japanese American citizens could not be trusted, and if some eggazeration was needed to convince people less messages were traced to American military trainees under De Witt’s command who while in training had send messages that were not decipherable. For examples of De Witt’s racism. See {587961}. and {587962}.