During World War II, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during the war, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called “quiet passage.” Hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City were exchanged for other more ostensibly important Americans—diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, and missionaries—behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany.
On the next KTEP Book Club on PERSPECTIVES, Louie Saenz talks with the book's author, Jan Jarboe Russell. http://www.janjarboerussell.com/
Aired February 20 & 21, 2016.