Documentary to tell story of Japanese camps

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Documentary to tell story of Japanese camps

By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated: August 6, 2004, 08:15:18 PM PDT


LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A documentary film that tells the story of World War II Japanese-American internment camps in Arkansas will air on public television next year.

The film, titled "Time of Fear," is part of a project to preserve the long-neglected history of the two Arkansas camps. It will debut Sept. 24 during a Little Rock conference, which will reunite hundreds of former camp detainees.

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Between 1942 and 1945, the Jerome and Rohwer camps in southeast Arkansas held 16,000 detainees. More than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were sent from the West Coast and Hawaii to 10 internment camps at the beginning of the war. Eight camps were in the West; the Arkansas sites were the only ones in the South.

Following its September debut, "Time of Fear" will be shown in November at Little Rock's Reel Film Festival, which will be part of the opening of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center at Little Rock.

PBS is expected to broadcast the film nationally in May.

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