Names: Aiso, John Fujio, 1909-1987 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: John Aiso, a first generation Japanese American, won the Hollywood High School oratorical contest in 1925, (Herbert Wenig came in 2nd), but then withdrew from the state competition to coach Wenig. Aiso went to serve in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he advanced from private to lieutenant colonel. After the war Aiso became a lawyer and then became the first Nisei to hold a U.S. judicial post, ending up as a justice on California's 2nd District Court of Appeals. He died after being attacked by a transient while pumping gas at a gas station.
Date:: May 29, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection