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US WWII JAPANESE INTERNMENT ORDER

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US WWII JAPANESE INTERNMENT ORDER
Civilian Exclusion Order No. 66, broadside, issued by J.L. DeWitt, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army and the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. About 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast, were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in concentration camps in the western interior of the country. Approximately two-thirds of the internees were United States citizens. These actions were ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Reading: 'Pursuant to the provision of Public Proclamations Nos. 1 and 2,...it is hereby ordered that from and after 12 o'clock noon, P.W.T., of Sunday, May 17, 1942, all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien, be excluded from that portion of Military Area No. 1...', signed in print by J.L. DeWitt, Lt. General, U.S. Army. 14 x 22 inches, minor pinhole marks and minor tears.