USC Annenberg journalism professor, author and historian professor and historian Richard Reeves says there is no doubt in his mind that the United States could again create concentration camps like those used during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. "If a few incidents of terrorism happen again, we could start to round up Muslims in great numbers as we did with the Japanese with no charges except for their religion, just as the Japanese had no charges except for the color of their skin and they looked like the enemy," said Reeves. "The book is a cautionary……
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Reeves exposes ugly truth of Japanese internment camps in new book
CCLP senior fellow Richard Reeves examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during World War II in his new book, concentrating on a shortsighted military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. "A day that will live in infamy," President Franklin D. Roosevelt said of the attack in asking Congress for a Declaration of War, after which the president himself signed an executive order that moved more than 120,000 Japanese, most of them American citizens, "behind barbed-wire and machine gun towers, into concentration camps spread across the……
The Children of the Border
Truthdig published an article by senior fellow Richard Reeves on the recent deportation of women and children immigrants to Honduras…….
Richard Reeves: Catching Up with Big Data
Truthdig published senior fellow Richard Reeves' article, "Catching Up with Big Data"…….
Columbia Tribune cited Richard Reeves
Columbia Tribune cited senior fellow Richard Reeves about the events that punctuated President John F. Kennedy's years in the White House…….
Reeves Edits New Book on Kennedy Era
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the New York Times has authorized a new book, The Kennedy Years: From the Pages of the New York Times, edited by CCLP Senior Fellow, Richard Reeves. The book draws on the paper's extensive coverage of the Kennedy presidency. Reeves, the author of the bestselling Portraits of Camelot and President Kennedy: Profile of Power, edited this collection of the New York Times' "unsurpassed coverage of the tumultuous Kennedy era which spanned the Civil Rights Movement, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, the space program,……
A Big Tragedy and a Big Story: Race, Guns and Television
Truthdig: Senior Fellow Richard Reeves writes on the role of guns and television in the Zimmerman case and past cases…….
Obama Is Making More Sense Than the Loyal Opposition
truthdig: Senior fellow Richard Reeves headline, "Obama is making more sense than the loyal opposition."……
What Is Real and What Is Reality
truthdig: Senior fellow Richard Reeves discusses Hollywood's successful foray into warfare film depictions and the Oscar buzz that surrounds them…….
10,000 Days With Catherine O’Neill
truthdig: Senior fellow Richard Reeves delivers heartfelt memorial to his loving wife of 33 years, Catherine O'Neill…….