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Letter from Francis Biddle, Attorney General of the United States, to Frank Herron Smith, May 8, 1945

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Title: Letter from Francis Biddle, Attorney General of the United States, to Frank Herron Smith, May 8, 1945
Creator: Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945-05-08
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
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. See related Letter from Frank Herron Smith to President Harry S. Truman, May 4, 1945 .
Papers of two generations of the Smith family, Dr. Frank Herron Smith and his son Dr. Morris Eugene “Gene” Smith, including vintage broadsides and government reports on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and correspondence from the elder Smith to government officials advocating for improved treatment and safety for returning incarcerees.
Type: text
Format: Correspondence
1 page ; typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: 065-1-a-01-01-04
slo_smi_0004
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/309
Language: English
Subject: Geographic communities--California
Race and racism--Violence
World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement
Place: Washington, DC
Source: Special Collections and Archives, Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://lib.calpoly.edu/support/findingaids/ms065-smith/
Smith Family Papers on World War II

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