This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on American Samoa.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Apollo 13 astronauts stopping off in American Samoa where Governor John Haydon had gifts for each of them. In addition, Haydon gave Astronaut Swigert his 10-40 income tax form, who failed to file before his mission.