29 Jul Plaque unveils history of Japanese, others detained at WWII Griffith Park camp
By TAKESHI NAKAYAMA Nichi, Bei News Contributor, LOS ANGELES
Griffith Park’s Travel Town Museum, which offers fun train rides for birthday parties, business meet- ings and also shares railroad facts, has a little-known ugly history — it contained a World War II prison camp that held Japanese, as well as German and Italian immigrants, whom the United States government arrested on charges of being “potentially dangerous enemy aliens.”
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Photo from the educational marker at the Travel Town museum in Griffith Park