Murder of Evelyn Okubo
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Murder of Evelyn Okubo
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Evelyn Okubo was a Japanese-American sansei teenager killed during the 1970 convention of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) at the Palmer House hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Her 17-year-old roommate, Ranko Carol Yamada, was also severely wounded, yet survived. The murder caused a significant stir within the Japanese-American community, in part because Yamada alleged that the killer was African-American, just at the height of violence associated with the Black Panther Party. The killer w
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1970 murder in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Evelyn_Okubo
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2024-02-08T14:49:26Z
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