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All Things Considered: author Jack Hamann interview, National Public Radio, May 22, 2005 All Things Considered: author Jack Hamann interview, National Public Radio, December 2, 2007 Army reverses conviction of World War II vets, National Public Radio, December 26, 2007 Fort Lawton convictions overturned six decades later, National Public Radio, May 26, 2008 Weekend America: New history for an old lynching, American Public Media, July 26, 2008 Wrongly convicted WWII vets cleared, honored, National Public Radio, August 5, 2008 |
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MEDIA COVERAGE OF ON AMERICAN SOIL |
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MAY 22, 2005 JACK HAMANN, REWRITING HISTORY IN "AMERICAN SOIL" By Sheilah Kast In August 1944 an Italian prisoner of war was found hanged on the beach of a U.S. Army base on Puget Sound, near Seattle. Hours earlier his unit's barracks had been assaulted by black American enlisted men quartered nearby. The trial that followed was the Army's longest during World War II. The lead prosecutor was Leon Jaworski, who later led the Watergate investigation. A new book by Jack Hamann -- TV correspondent and documentary producer -- asserts that much of what was reported about the incident at the time was inaccurate, and the court-martial ended in a miscarriage of justice. He tells Sheilah Kast about his new book On American Soil, which uses recently declassified evidence to tell a fuller story of a bleak moment in U.S. history.
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