Fred Toru Okuma

Released
Date of birth:11. 10. 1913
Date of death:26. 04. 1977
Age:63† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Wyoming
Support
Anti-War Heart Mountain Draft Resistance
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Biography

Fred Toru Okuma was a Japanese American participant in the Heart Mountain draft-resistance movement. After being confined at Heart Mountain during World War II, he was prosecuted for refusing military conscription and imprisoned at McNeil Island in Washington.

1942 forced-removal chronology

The Heart Mountain institutional biography records arrival at Pomona Assembly Center on May 14, 1942, followed by Heart Mountain on August 26, 1942. These are dated confinement milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a revision of the later draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

The Heart Mountain institutional biography records that Fred Toru Okuma was pardoned by President Harry Truman on December 24, 1947. This pardon is distinct from the earlier physical release from prison. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

Case

McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Charges: Violation of the Selective Training and Service Act
Arrested: Apr 9, 1944
Released: July 1946
Sentence: Three years
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Washington

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