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65th Anniversary of Japanese-American Internment Camps Marked

HeadlineFeb 20, 2007

And Monday marked the 65th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066. The order forced 120,000 Japanese-American citizens and legal residents into internment camps during World War II solely because they were of Japanese descent.

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