George Takei got reparations. He says they 'strengthen the integrity of America'
Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese-Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.
by Neda Ulaby
Feb 18, 2022
2 minutes
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It sent approximately 70,000 U.S. citizens into internment camps for years, including a very young George Takei.
"I was five years old at the time," recalls the actor. "It was a terrorizing morning I will never be able to forget. Literally at gunpoint, we were ordered out of
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