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The Statehood Years production materials

This subcollection includes interviews and other raw material from The Statehood Years documentary. This program is co-production of CLEAR and the University of Hawaiʻi Oral History Project. The Statehood Years looks back at the people, issues and events that set the stage for Hawaiʻi's statehood, featuring interviews with such notables as Robert McElrath, Dan Aoki, former First Lady Beatrice Burns, David Trask, and the former Governor William F. Quinn.

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  • Documentary

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Statehood Years

Statehood Years

This program is co-production of CLEAR and the University of Hawaiʻi Oral History Project produced in 1986 by Chris Conybeare and Warren Nishimoto;...

Duration:
00:29:20
Interview with George Lehleitner tape 1 4/82

Interview with George Lehleitner tape 1 4/82

Interview with George Lehleitner recorded April 1982. Topics include growing up in New Orleans, apprenticeship and labor, race and religious...

Duration:
00:17:50
Interview with George Lehleitner tape 2 4/82

Interview with George Lehleitner tape 2 4/82

Interview with George Lehleitner recorded April 1982. Topics include the railroad strike ending his apprenticeship, realizing that he lacked...

Duration:
00:20:30
Interview with George Lehleitner tape 3 4/82

Interview with George Lehleitner tape 3 4/82

Interview with George Lehleitner recorded April 1982. Topics include reading books about Hawaiʻi, how he came to Hawaiʻi, joining the navy, going...

Duration:
00:20:31
Interview with George Lehleitner tape 4 4/82

Interview with George Lehleitner tape 4 4/82

Interview with George Lehleitner recorded April 1982. Topics include how Hawaiʻi's multi-ethnic population was addressed to the congress, going...

Duration:
00:19:00
Interview with George Lehleitner tape 5 10/83

Interview with George Lehleitner tape 5 10/83

Interview with George Lehleitner recorded October 1983. Topics include campaigning for years until statehood, the Tennessee Plan based on how...

Duration:
00:19:50
Interview with John Whitehead tape 1 4/82

Interview with John Whitehead tape 1 4/82

Interview with John Whitehead, professor of history at the University of Alaska Fairbanks recorded April 1982. Topics include how Hawaiʻi and...

Duration:
00:20:53
Interview with John Whitehead tape 2 6/82

Interview with John Whitehead tape 2 6/82

Interview with John Whitehead, professor of history at the University of Alaska Fairbanks recorded June 1982. Topics include John Burns' strategy...

Duration:
00:16:58
Interview with David K. Trask, Jr. 3/84

Interview with David K. Trask, Jr. 3/84

Interview with David K. Trask, Jr. recorded in March 1984. Topics include why the Hawaii Government Employment Association (HGEA) supported...

Duration:
00:17:37
Interview with Danny Kaleikini 3/84

Interview with Danny Kaleikini 3/84

Interview with Danny Kaleikini recorded in March 1984. Topics include making the best of statehood, how distance makes people know less about...

Duration:
00:08:31
Interview with Beatrice Burns 4/84

Interview with Beatrice Burns 4/84

Interview with Beatrice Burns recorded in April 1984. Topics include her husband being a quiet person, his daily routine, supporting her husband,...

Duration:
00:07:34
Interview with Dan Aoki tape 1 9/12/84

Interview with Dan Aoki tape 1 9/12/84

Interview with Dan Aoki recorded September 12, 1984. Topics include how his father being a preacher and growing up on a plantation influenced him,...

Year:
1984
Duration:
00:18:05
Interview with Dan Aoki tape 2 9/12/84

Interview with Dan Aoki tape 2 9/12/84

Interview with Dan Aoki recorded September 12, 1984. Topics include being Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor, volunteering for the service...

Year:
1984
Duration:
00:19:25
Interview with Dan Aoki tape 3 9/12/84

Interview with Dan Aoki tape 3 9/12/84

Interview with Dan Aoki recorded September 12, 1984. Topics include forming the Democratic Party after returning from the war, campaigning for John...

Year:
1984
Duration:
00:18:35
Interview with Dan Aoki tape 4 9/12/84

Interview with Dan Aoki tape 4 9/12/84

Interview with Dan Aoki recorded September 12, 1984. Topics include why the Japanese community became the leadership of the Democratic Party,...

Year:
1984
Duration:
00:18:30
Interview with Dan Aoki at home tape 1 10/84

Interview with Dan Aoki at home tape 1 10/84

Interview with Dan Aoki recorded October 1984. Topics include John Burns running as a delegate to congress in the 1954 election, local campaigning,...

Duration:
00:18:30