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Gordon Hirabayashi

Gordon Hirabayashi

American sociologistWikipedia

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Sep 19, 2026

Lorraine BannaiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
13:13
United States, the Supreme Court upheld those orders, deferring to the military judgment that they were necessary.
Lorraine BannaiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
13:21
Forty years later, Fred Korematsu and Gordon Hirabayashi were exonerated, on proof that the government had withheld from the court material evidence bearing on the issue of military necessity.
Lorraine BannaiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
13:33
In essence, even as the military orders lacked factual basis, Japanese Americans languished in camps, many for over three years.
Jennifer BrineyHOST
13:44
And so in the aftermath of World War II and the acknowledgement that our government denied Americans our most basic rights in the name of fighting that war, steps were taken in the 1970s by Congress in an attempt to stop it from happening again.
KyleHOST
75:36
Yes.
KyleHOST
75:37
And the clue is this 1944 decision frequently cites Hirabayashi versus U.S. decided 18 months earlier and upholding a conviction for violating curfew.
EmilyHOST
75:50
And the
KyleHOST
75:51
correct response that they're going for is Korematsu versus U.S. Andrew wrote, what is Ken versus us at WrestleMania is what he was going for.

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