Robert Northshield

Produced in 1979, this classic short documentary explores the mass media and its impact upon society, uncovering shocking details showing how in many cases it is the media itself that drives the news cycle.

Guilty by Reason of Race was produced and reported by veteran producer Robert Northshield and incorporated historic footage and photographs with contemporary interviews with Japanese Americans as well as those who advocated for incarceration at the time to tell the story of Japanese American removal from the West Coast and their subsequent confinement in concentration camps. Several former inmates are filmed visiting the places where they had been incarcerated, including Amy Uno Ishii, J. H. Takeda, and Betty Kozasa visiting Santa Anita and activist Edison Uno (who was an adviser to the film's producers) at Amache. It is also notable for including an interview in Tokyo with renunciant Masao Amachi, who recalled that he had "lost confidence" in the U.S. and felt that no matter who won the war, that he "would always be looked at as a Jap."

A recording of Horowitz's historic 1986 recital in Moscow, the program also includes highlights of his return to his native Soviet Union--his first visit in 61 years.

Belfast, 1971: children playing in the rubble of a bombed‐out home, the funeral of a young man, bitter women blowing celebration whistles after the shooting of a British soldier, a young boy and girl discussing their knowledge of guerrilla weapons, young people in a pub singing boozily sentimental songs about past wars and victories, a housewife staggering out of her home after having been hit in the face by a soldier's stray rubber bullet. Shown as part of series NBC White Paper

Guilty by Reason of Race was produced and reported by veteran producer Robert Northshield and incorporated historic footage and photographs with contemporary interviews with Japanese Americans as well as those who advocated for incarceration at the time to tell the story of Japanese American removal from the West Coast and their subsequent confinement in concentration camps. Several former inmates are filmed visiting the places where they had been incarcerated, including Amy Uno Ishii, J. H. Takeda, and Betty Kozasa visiting Santa Anita and activist Edison Uno (who was an adviser to the film's producers) at Amache. It is also notable for including an interview in Tokyo with renunciant Masao Amachi, who recalled that he had "lost confidence" in the U.S. and felt that no matter who won the war, that he "would always be looked at as a Jap."

A recording of Horowitz's historic 1986 recital in Moscow, the program also includes highlights of his return to his native Soviet Union--his first visit in 61 years.

Belfast, 1971: children playing in the rubble of a bombed‐out home, the funeral of a young man, bitter women blowing celebration whistles after the shooting of a British soldier, a young boy and girl discussing their knowledge of guerrilla weapons, young people in a pub singing boozily sentimental songs about past wars and victories, a housewife staggering out of her home after having been hit in the face by a soldier's stray rubber bullet. Shown as part of series NBC White Paper