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Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an order which initiated thousands of Japanese Americans to be rounded up and imprisoned into internment camps for the remainder of the war. Drawing from survivor interviews, private letters and memoirs, and numerous archives, award-winning historian Richard Reeves provides compelling insight into this painful chapter in American history, during which more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese aliens were interned.

Richard Reeves, Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, is the author of Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II. Lesley Stahl (moderator) has been a correspondent for 60 Minutes since 1991. Previously, she served as CBS News White House correspondent.

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