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Conscience and the Constitution

In 1944, 85 Japanese American prisoners in an American internment camp were prosecuted as criminals when they refused the draft.

Premiere Date

November 30, 2000

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Frank Abe

Producer

Frank Abe, a third-generation Japanese American whose father was interned at Heart Mountain, was an award-winning reporter for the CBS Radio affiliate in Seattle for 14 years. His film Conscience and the Constitution, details the largest organized resistance to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.

With a B.A. in theater directing from the University of California at Santa Cruz and training from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Abe (with Frank Chin) was a founding member of the Asian American Theater Workshop (now Theater Company) in San Francisco. He was also featured as an internment camp leader in John Korty’s 1976 NBC-TV movie Farewell to Manzanar.
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Shannon Gee

Producer