Pearl Harbor Materials, 1933-1978.

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Pearl Harbor Materials, 1933-1978.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32507741

Collection contains newspaper clippings (1941-1974); correspondence by Haan and Cannings with U.S. government officials regarding the Pearl Harbor attack and Japanese activities in Korea; and photographs of the signing ceremony which established the United Nations in 1945. The bulk of the collection consists of photocopies.

.45 cubic ft. (1 box)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7342612

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Western Union Telegraph Company

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The bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale were both involved in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia, Alaska and Russia to survey areas where the Western Union Telegraph Company planned to construct a telegraph line linking America and Europe. The line was never completed. Charles S. Bulkley was Engineer-in-Chief and Charles M. Scammon was Chief of Marine. The bark Golden Gate was the flagship of the expedition from June 1865 to March 1866, after which the clipper s...

Haan, Kilsoo Kenneth, 1900-1976

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Kilsoo Kenneth Haan was born in Chang Dan, Korea, on May 31, 1900. He arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 5, and soon was working as a sugar cane laborer for the Oahu Sugar Company. After completing the 8th grade, he contracted to raise sugar cane for the Company, while training in the Hawaiian National Guard. After an honorable discharge, Haan moved to San Francisco. There he attended the Salvation Army Training College. Between 1922 and 1926 he served in the Salvation Army as an officer, reach...

Cannings, Fred E., d. 1979.

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Cannings (d. 1979) was chief of technical facilities for Western Union Telegraph Company and responsible for installing and maintaining the telegraph circuit that connected the Japanese government and the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C. in 1941. Based upon his work for Western Union, he believed that the Japanese government warned the U.S. before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He conducted research on the topic and often worked with Kilsoo Haan, a Korean national who was an agent for the Feder...

United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...