Sam Isamu Shimane

Released
Date of birth:12. 06. 1925
Date of death:12. 12. 2012
Age:87† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Wyoming
Support
Anti-War Heart Mountain Draft Resistance
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Biography

Sam Isamu Shimane was a Japanese American participant in the Heart Mountain draft-resistance movement. He was confined at Heart Mountain during World War II and subsequently imprisoned for refusing military conscription.

Forced-removal chronology

The institutional biography records confinement at Santa Anita Assembly Center on May 30, 1942, followed by arrival at Heart Mountain on September 13, 1942. These are confinement-stage milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a change to the draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

The Heart Mountain institutional biography records that Sam Isamu Shimane 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

Charges: Violation of the Selective Training and Service Act
Arrested: Mar 29, 1944
Sentenced: June 1944
Released: July 1946
Sentence: 3 years imposed. Served time in federal prison. Released in July 1946.
Convicted: Yes

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