Jim Hirabayashi

World History

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Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
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Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
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Family Tree, Oral History

July 03, 2012

By: Pure History

Densho Oral History – Jim Hirabayashi

James Hirabayashi, one of the founding fathers of the ethnic studies movement, was doing research in Guam in the 1960s. While there, he remembers thinking about his own ethnic identity as a Japanese American living in the United States. James Hirabayashi’s full interview is available in the Densho Digital Archive.

This clip is an excerpt from Jim Hirabayashi’s oral history interview conducted July 4, 2008 (denshovh-hjim-02-0011). To see the complete interview, visit the Densho Digital Archive http://www.densho.org/archive.