Beth Markley and Jim Barclay
Recorded
May 11, 2020
Archived
May 11, 2020
40:37 minutes
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Id:
mby019757
Description
Beth Markley (51) helps her uncle Jim Barclay (80) remember his father and her grandfather, a police officer and former security manager at Camp Minidoka- a Japanese internment camp and the impact it had on his life.Subject Log / Time Code
BM shares a memory of JB's father, her grandfather.
In 1942, a 3 year old JB visited a Japanese internment camp where his father worked.
"It was a dry dusty place with some kids that I didn't know why they were there."- JB
JB recalls his father's involvement with police shooting.
JB recalls how his father described the internees at the camp as very nice and how his work there was not difficult for that fact.
"Most of the internees were very loyal American citizens and they were doing their best to cooperate."- JB
BM discusses the differences between Japanese generations, issei and nisei.
JB discusses a type of year book that was produced to document the internees at the camp and his father's thoughts on it.
BM brings up baseball leagues developing at the camps and JB's father's involvement.
BM describes the impact of the internment.
"Does it give you a sense of responsibility to share this story?"-BM to JB
JB and BM discuss community policing and relationships with the police in the past.
Participants
- Beth Markley
- Jim Barclay