There was evidence of espionage, that it was absolutely false. The fbi had found no evidence to support it. They had all agreed there was no evidence to support this. He demanded, he said it is highly unfair to this racial minority that these lies about them in an official publication go on corrected. The solicitor general in 1994, he stood up before the Supreme Court and said, standing behind every word in light of the military report, claimed there had been asked of espionage and acts of espionage and sabotage. We found these documents, me and other researchers. We put together a legal team in san francisco, portland, seattle, where the three cases started, and filed suits under a provision that means you can go back to court even if after you have served your sentence, even then, you can if you have evidence the government has committed misconduct. In all three cases, the judges agreed the government had lied to the Supreme Court. So they vacated them. The decision and fred koremats
His acting career has spanned five decades. Includes many roles, the first one was his iconic and lu,orgettable portrayal of su but it includes many others. George is not just an actor. He is an unprecedented social media presence, and he is an activist for many causes, speaking out for the rights of lgbt people and also asianamericans and many others. In recognition of his contribution to the relationship between the United States and japan, he was awarded the order of the rising sun. By his majesty the emperor of japan. Please join me in welcoming george takei. [applause] mr. Roosevelt thank you so much for coming. Mr. Takei thank you for the invitation to be here. Enter the japan society, it is always a pleasure to be here and to have a discussion with you, who has written a novel titled allegiance. Im halfway through that right now, so please dont reveal any spoilers to me. Mr. Roosevelt i will try not to, although i should say you probably know a fair amount of the plot already. B
Concentration camp. This is about two hours. Ladies and gentlemen, let me welcome you to todays presentation. Let me welcome the former inmates and the survivors. Let me welcome all the english guests from all over the world with representives of churches and religious communities and including representatives of the jewish communities and representatives of the roma. Now i am asking the president of the republican of poland for his address. Todays ceremonys under his patronage. Ladies and gentlemen, and especially you who went through this all the distinguished guests we are in this life where our civilization was down in the place where the plans to destroyed men of their dignity was systematically executed where german nazis launched in the sea and a human being was reduced to a number. Ten years ago at the shore, here they kept my family in prison and they burned everyone. Here, they took my name away and they gave me the number. Never again was i myself. I became a number. We are
Ladies and gentlemen, let me welcome you to todays observation. Let me welcome the former inmates and the survivors. [applause] let me welcome all of the distinguished guests from all over the world. Including representatives of jewish communities and others. Now i am asking the president of poland for his address. Todays ceremony is under his patronage. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, and especially you, the survivors. All distinguished guests, we are in the place where our civilization, and it plays where they plan to the bride men of their dignity was systematically executed, where german nazis, a human being was reduced to a camp number. 10 years ago, a survivor said, here, they kept my family imprisoned. Here, they took my name away and gave me a number. Never again was i me, i became a number. We are standing in the place where over one Million People were murdered. The overwhelmingly majority of them being jews. We are standing in the place that reminds us of the murders. It un
Good afternoon, everybody. Again, i just wanted to thank all of the agencies for coming together and doing both a celebration and another prepatory work at the 108th anniversary of our 1906 earthquake and see so many people at 5 00 a. M. And that is pretty nice. I also want to say, again, thank you. We did take the opportunity as you saw and read last week to thank all of you who were part of the response, the great response to the mission bay fire, so it was a multitude of agents that responded and worked well together, and these are things that we have practiced doing, over and over again, and give me the opportunity to continue thanking everyone for working altogether and we, i think that we made an emphasis that both firefighters and officers, but also everybody that works behind these things to make them happen and all of the different agencies that we are able to recognize from the parking control officers to the 911 dispatch to the people working here and others that coordinatio