Hawai'i 1945: A Sixty-Year Retrospective

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Hawai‘i 1945: A 60-Year Retrospective on the End of World War II

Celebrating the end of World War II The Hawaiian Historical Society invites the public to a free program, Hawai'i 1945: A 60-Year Retrospective on the End of World War II. The program will take place on Wednesday, September 7, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. at the Mission Memorial Auditorium, 550 South King Street, next to Honolulu Hale. The program is free and open to the public.

Presenters for the evening will be:

Dan Boylan, professor of history and government at the University of Hawai‘i, West O'ahu.
Tom Coffman. author and film producer.
William S. Richardson, a veteran of World War II, former lieutenant governor, and former chief justice of the Hawai'i Supreme Court.
James Burns, chief judge of the Intermediate Appellate Court and son of John A. Burns, a delegate to Congress and governor of Hawai'i.
Ted Tsukiyama, member of the Varsity Victory Volunteers, Army interpreter in the India Burma theater, distinguished attorney and arbitrator, and historian for the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

Join us for an extraordinary evening with a panel of historians who have studied postwar Hawai'i and those who participated in the events following World War II, as they discuss the social forces and personalities of that tumultuous era.

Among the questions to be discussed by the panelists—was there an organized and planned effort to change the governance of Hawai'i, or was it largely an inevitable happenstance? Was statehood on the mind of most residents in 1945? What caused the anticommunist hysteria of the late 1940s that affected Hawai'i? What did those involved in postwar events predict right about the future of Hawai'i? What did they predict wrong?

Audience members will also be given an opportunity to pose their own questions.