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Title: Correspondence from Francis Biddle to Frank Herron Smith May 8, 1945
Creator: Biddle, Francis
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945-05-08
Contributing Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Collection: Smith Family Papers on World War II
Rights Information: Notice regarding copyright of materials available online: http://lib.calpoly.edu/support/policies/sca-policies/copyright-guidelines/#online-copyright
Description: Biddle's response to Smith's letter to Harry Truman requesting that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI become involved in stopping the arson and shootings perpetrated against Japanese Americans (see Letter from Frank Herron Smith to President Harry S. Truman, May 4, 1945) informs Smith that unless a federal law is violated, he can not be involved. Biddle states that he has asked Hoover to give him a report on the "outrages" and requests that Smith send any other details he has so that Biddle can notify Governor Earl Warren about them.
Type: text
Format: Letter
Identifier: 065-1-a-01-01-04
https://digital.lib.calpoly.edu/rekl-280
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Leaving Camp--"Resettlement"--Geographic communities--California--Race and racism--Violence
Place: Washington
District of Columbia
Source: MS 065--Smith Family Papers on World War II--http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2p30242w/

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