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Document Details


Title: Terminal Island Life History Project Thomas Takeshi Okimoto
Document type: Oral history
Accessibility: Free Only
Repository: California Digital Library. Online Archive of California
Collection: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive: Oral Histories
Series: Item 19 of Series Terminal Island
URL: http://texts.cdlib.org/dynaxml/servlet/dynaXML?docId=kt367n993t&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=d0e4677&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4268&query=0
Original Language: English
Time span: Not indicated ... to 1994 (Year of interview)
Speaker: Okimoto, Thomas Takeshi, 1915-
Speaker gender: Male
Speaker date of birth: 1915
Speaker place of birth: Texas City, TX; Texas; United States; North America
Speaker race: Asian
Speaker occupation: Civil servant; Fisherman
Age at speaking: 79
Document date: 1994
Organizations discussed: Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley, CA
Historical events discussed: Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
Locations discussed: Asia; California; Hawaii; Japan; North America; Owens Valley, CA; Pearl Harbor, HI; Terminal Island, CA; United States
Topics discussed - ASP terms: Asia; Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; California; Concentration camps--Owens Valley (Calif.); Family--History; Fishing; Hawaii; Japan; Japanese American families; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans--Terminal Island (Calif.); Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley, CA; Marriage; North America; Oral history; Owens Valley, CA; Pearl Harbor, HI; Terminal Island, CA; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
ASP release: 2005-06
Document code: OHI0022511-23869