Japanese American Incarceration in WWII on This Week in Moab

The Moab Museum’s upcoming exhibit, ‘A Moab Prison Camp: Japanese American Incarceration in Grand County‘ has been years in the making. Public programs manager, Mary Langworthy, discusses the local and national story of Japanese American incarceration during WWII, in which Moab played a brief but significant role. And later in the show, we revisit a 2021 KZMU News interview with artist and activist George Takei, who talks about his own forced confinement as a child during WWII.

Names of some of the 55 men who were imprisoned at Dalton Wells, north of Moab, during Japanese American incarceration in WWII. See the entire reel at Moab Museum’s Instagram page.

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Music in this episode is ‘Holizna RAPS’ by Holizna CC