November 16, 9:00 am
Western University of Health SciencesWineberg Center, Trendle Hall
309 E. Second St. Pomona, CA 9176
(Northeast corner of 2nd and Gibbs)
$15 (includes Breakfast) — Students $5
Mr. Ono will be presenting his 4-part special report from KABC 7 on the Japanese Internment Camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming as a part of the Pomona Library’s Together We Read program of months-long events associated with reading the book, Farewell To Manzanar.
David Ono is the co-anchor for ABC7 Eyewitness News at 4pm and 6pm, He grew up in Texas and is a graduate of the University of North Texas.
David has won 13 Emmys, and has had 35 nominations, and has won two Edward R. Murrow award for his coverage of the devastation following the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and returned to the city six months later to give an update on the rebuilding progress. In March 2011, he traveled to Japan to report on the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands. In July 2011, David was the only Los Angeles journalist given the opportunity to sit down with President Barack Obama for a one-on-one interview to discuss the debt limit debate, the apparent breakdown of civility in government, same-sex marriage and jobs.
The Penley Letters
In addition to Mr. Ono’s presentation, students from Pomona Unified School District will be presenting selected readings from the Penley Letters.
Lavina Penley was a school librarian at Emerson School (then through 10th grade) and befriended the Japanese students then living in Pomona. When they were moved to the Assembly Center at the Pomona Fairgrounds, she visited them and began a correspondence with them. Pomona Library’s Special Collection has the letters sent by those students to Mrs. Penley, and selections of them will be read. After leaving the Fairgrounds Assembly Center, most of the internees ended up at the Internment Camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming (near Cody).
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