Oral History Interview with Alan Tanaguchi, March 18, 1995 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Alan Tanaguchi, March 18, 1995

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Tanaguchi. Tanaguchi was a Japanese-American internee at the Gila River Camp in Arizona during World War II. At 19 years old, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Tanaguchi became a part of the internment program of the War Relocation Authority. He provides detail of life growing up in Stockton, California before December 7, 1941 and after, and experiences of bigotry and racism among his peers. He provides detail of his father being in the Justice Department internment group. He served as the dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and at Rice University in Houston. He designed an addition to the Nimitz Museum.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Tanaguchi, Alan
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1374.0266]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Walter Ray Williams Jr., who won titles at Boulevard Bowl in 1986 and 1987, leads the PBA tour in titles (five) , money earned ($210,810) , TV appearances (11) and average (223.50) ."
Date: July 15, 1992
Creator: Hoke, Doug
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1374.0275]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Walter Ray Williams Jr. makes at Boulevard Bowl."
Date: July 15, 1992
Creator: Hoke, Doug
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History