Samuel Wilder King: Fighting for Statehood
Sailors
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TV-PG, 01-Jun-2018
Directed by Carolina Gratianne
Samuel Wilder King led a life of service. First, he was in uniform during WWI and WWII, he worked to minimize the internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii, and after the war, he was one of the driving forces behind making Hawaii the 50th State of the Union.
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