On February 19th 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the forced evacuation of about 120,000 people of Japanese descent into 10 incarceration camps across the United States for up to four years.

Commemorating the 83rd anniversary of the presidential order, Baseball Behind Barbed Wire is making its PBS PREMIERE on PBS Hawai’i Presents! Watch the short documentary via live broadcast on Thursday, February 20, 8:30 PM HST.

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