FDR Presidential Library Director to Keynote
Members from the Mount Olympus, Salt Lake and Wasatch Front North JACL chapters convened on Oct. 3 at the Idle Isle Restaurant in Brigham City, Utah, to discuss their first Day of Remembrance event, which will also be held in Brigham City on Feb. 15, 2025. The DOR will coincide with the grand opening of the first Brigham City Museum exhibit “Uncovering the Journey: Japanese American Pioneers in Box Elder County,” whose story has never before been told. The keynote speaker for the Day of Remembrance event will be William A. Harris, director of the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, N.Y.
Next year signals the 83rd observance commemorating the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942. The DOR event’s keynote speaker will be William A. Harris, director of the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. It will mark Harris’ first visit to Utah to speak on this subject.