Document Related to the Mixed-Marriage/Mixed-Blood Policy of the U.S. WWII Concentration Camps
Last page of May 18, 1942, handwritten letter from Leroy M. Johns to President FDR, asking to keep his family at home and together; and later letter among Army and government officials describing the fate of the Johns family as of July, 1942:
Citation:
"Letter from Leroy M Johns to Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” May 18, 1942; & “Letter from Karl R Bendetsen to Colonel Ralph Tate,” July 27, 1942, 1942-06-16 Mixed Marriage Cases-Ltrs, Memos dated 1942-06-16 thru 1943-08-01 Pgs23_ck.pdf," Doc ID: 231, Japanese American Veterans Association, Research Archive, Digitized Documents Project.
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