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FORT LAWTON CONSTRUCTED
named after General Henry Ware Lawton

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BUFFALO SOLDIERS AT FORT LAWTON
9th Calvary transiting to China during Boxer Revolution

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TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY BASED AT FORT LAWTON
Presence of all-black unit stirs racial tension in Seattle neighborhood

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MASS SURRENDER IN NORTH AFRICA
240,000 Axis soldiers, including more than 100,000 Italians, taken prisoner in Tunisia

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FIRST ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR ARRIVE IN ARIZONA
Seven-thousand assigned to newly-constructed camp in Florence, AZ

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FEBRUARY 21: BASIC TRAINING BEGINS FOR 650th & 651st PORT COMPANIES
Two all-black units stationed in segregated barracks at Fort Lawton

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MAY 18: 28th ISU LEAVES CAMP FLORENCE
Newly-formed Italian Service Unit arrives at Seattle's Fort Lawton two days later

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JUNE 6: D-DAY
Allies storm Normandy, France

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JULY 10: INSURRECTION AT FORT LAWTON BY FASCIST POWs
One thousand Italian prisoners from Arkansas forcibly removed to Hawaii-bound transport ships

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JULY 18: EXPLOSION AT PORT CHICAGO, CALIFORNIA
Hundreds of sailors killed; event led to largest Navy court-martial of WWII

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AUGUST 12: PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT VISITS SEATTLE
Concludes top-secret journey to Hawaii and Alaska; train departs adjacent to Fort Lawton

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AUGUST 14: RIOT AT FORT LAWTON
31 injured, including 25 Italians and 6 Americans

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AUGUST 15: BODY OF GUGLIELMO OLIVOTTO DISCOVERED
Lynched from obstacle course at base of Magnolia bluffs

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AUGUST 21: LINEUP AT CAMP GEORGE JORDAN
Italian prisoners identify fifty black American soldiers as possible riot suspects

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AUGUST 23: 650th & 651st PORT COMPANIES DEPART SEATTLE
All members of units, except riot suspects, leave for New Guinea, via San Francisco

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SEPTEMBER 16: GENERAL ELLIOT COOKE BEGINS INVESTIGATION
Arrives at Fort Lawton to interrogate dozens of witnesses and officers

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OCTOBER 13: COLONEL HARRY BRANSON RELIEVED OF COMMAND
Fort Lawton Commander removed from post

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OCTOBER 27: LEON JAWORSKI FILES CRIMINAL CHARGES
43 soldiers charged with rioting; 3 also charged with first-degree murder

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NOVEMBER 7: ELECTION DAY
President Franklin Roosevelt elected to fourth term

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NOVEMBER 16: TRIAL BEGINS
Court meets in newly-constructed spacious medical processing facilty

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NOVEMBER 23: THANKSGIVING DAY
Trial conducted six days a week, including Thanksgiving

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DECEMBER 4: PROSECUTION RESTS
Defense granted three-day recess

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DECEMBER 13: DEFENSE RESTS
Twenty-five defendants waive right to testify on own behalf

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DECEMBER 16: CLOSING ARGUMENTS
Prosecution, then defense, then rebuttal

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DECEMBER 17: VERDICTS
Twenty-eight convicted, thirteen acquitted, two nolle prosequi (charges dropped)

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DECEMBER 18: SENTENCING
Combined sentences equaled more than two hundred years

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JANUARY 4: CLYDE LOMAX COURT-MARTIALED
Guilty on two counts; discharged from Army

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