Handbill
1959 · Los Angeles
by [Kimm, Diamond]
Los Angeles: LA Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born, 1959. Handbill. 8.5x14 inch handbill with a small photo of Kimm at head, faint creases. Outlines the deportation proceedings the government had undertaken for his leftist sympathies, and warning that return to South Korea would effectively be a death sentence for the activist. At the bottom is a reprint of a War Department commendation from Col. Carl Eifler regarding Kimm's service during WW II. Kimm's advocacy of Korean independence during the war had aligned with American war aims, but by continuing to support the North in the period leading up to the Korean War, he fell afoul of US policy. (Inventory #: 165126)