Transcription: On the day Japan struck at Pearl Harbor, a hundred and ten thousand men, women, and children of Japanese birth or descent lived in the United States, almost all of them on the West Coast. Two-thirds had been born in the United States and were in fact bonafide American citizens. But that did not matter in the hours just after war was declared. A Jap's a Jap, sputtered the general commanding the nation's western defenses, American or not. There were spies among them. That was the first reaction. There were saboteurs among them, subversives and sympathizers. There was not a lawman in the country ...
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