Biography
Halley Minoura 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 institutional biography records arrival at Pomona Assembly Center on May 29, 1942 and subsequent confinement at Heart Mountain, whose arrival date it does not give. 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 Halley Minoura 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.
