Contact sheet of negatives by George Wakiji documenting the United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Hearings in Washington, D.C. Name stamp of George Wakiji on back. Photo label of those depicted affixed on reverse.
The CWRIC was a bipartisan commission formed by President Jimmy Carter to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066) and the incarceration of American citizens, as well as the mistreatment of the Alaskan natives of the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands. The following contact sheet documents the hearing held on July 14th, 1981. It features members of commission and captures the testimonies from various members of Congress, including Representatives Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Michael E. Lowry (D-Washington), and Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, Min Yasui and Gordon Hirabayashi (plaintiffs in Supreme Court challenges to Japanese American incarceration).
The people in the highlighted cells are as follows:
1 Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
5 Reps. McClory and Danielson
22 Commissioners: Brooke, Marutani, Lungren
23 Unidentified reporter speaking to Paul Bannai
24 Commissioner Bernstein and John Tateishi
26 Fortas and Mike Masaoka
29 Leland Barrows, ex-WRA
36 Abe Fortas