. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," our guest is jan jarboe russell.er new book, "the train to crystal city: fdr's secret prisoner exchange and america's only family internment camp during world war ii," examines the unique nature of this camp located in southern texas, which was home not only to japanese detainees but also germans and italians living in the u.s. during the war. operated from 1942-1948, the camp was the center of the secret program called client passage in which hundreds were exchanged against their will for american diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, and others held behind enemy lines in germany and japan. >> jan jarboe russell, author of "the train to crystal city," who is sunni? >> sumi is the japanese-american main character of my book who was born in los angeles, and her father was a photographer. the most successful japanese photographer in los angeles. he was arrested as an enemy alien because he was a photographer. during world war ii, photography was like the internet. anybody who had access to it could take photos of military

ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome jan jarboe russell. [applause] >> well it is great to be here. i also want to recognize craig curtis who is my first editor at texas monthly is here and other friends. i think jan reid is here and if there are others i recognize you because of course texas monthly as an anchor. sarah bird is here. an anchor in the lives of all of us that are texans. also, just want to say thank you for coming. i have these photographs that irish is going to kind of give you pretend it's like a family vacation and that we are visiting crystal city and you can see. i am going to start with this before. abend, doing to stand up? this in iguchi. [applause] the great glory of nonfiction. it is true. they are real people and it's exciting. i then played a big role in this book and i wanted to acknowledge him. this is al intan iguchi on the left at christmas before his father was arrested and his mother and his father and his brother. i love this picture of allen. i can imagine never looking not jan. but there it is. i first lea

visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> this week on "q&a," our guest is jan jarboe russell.er new book, "the train to crystal city: fdr's secret prisoner exchange and america's only family internment camp during world war ii," examines the unique nature of this camp located in southern texas, which was home not only to japanese detainees but also germans and italians living in the u.s. during the war. operated from 1942-1948, the camp was the center of the secret program called client passage in which hundreds were exchanged against their will for american diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, and others held behind enemy lines in germany and japan. >> jan jarboe russell, author of "the train to crystal city," who is sunni? >> sumi is the japanese-american main character of my book who was born in los angeles, and her father was a photographer. the most successful japanese photographer in los angeles. he was arrested as an enemy alien because he was a photographer. during world war ii, photography was like the internet. anybody who had access to it could take photos of military

. >> this week on "q&a," our guest is jan jarboe russell. new book, "the train to crystal city: fdr's secret prisoner exchange and america's only family internment camp during world war ii," examines the unique nature of this camp located in southern texas, which was home not only to japanese detainees but also germans and italians living in the u.s. during the war. operated from 1942-1948, the camp was the center of the secret program called client passage in which hundreds were

. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," our guest is jan jarboe russell.er new book, "the train to crystal city: fdr's secret prisoner exchange and america's only family internment camp during world war ii," examines the unique nature of this camp located in southern texas, which was home not only to japanese detainees but also germans and italians living in the u.s. during the war. operated from 1942-1948, the camp was the center of the secret program called client passage in which hundreds

. >> our guest has been jan jarboe russell from san antonio, texas. book that she wrote several years ago on lady bird johnson, and the name of this book is "the train to crystal city: fdr's secret prisoner exchange and america's only family internment camp during world war ii." we thank you very much. >> thank you, brian. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.com. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> this year marks a decade of compelling conversation on "q&a. " david kennedy from the library of congress, stephen kinser, doris kearns goodwin. you can watch them all at www.c-span.org. coming up on c-span, your calls and comments live onw." governors will talk with the news media after a meeting with president obama. >> tonight we spoke with two industry executives at the consumer electronics show

. >> and now on booktv, jan jarboe russell recounts family internment camp based in crystal city taxesduring world war ii world war ii. the camp received over 6000 civilians from 19 week to to 1948. any assistance from german, japanese and italian defense here this is about 45 minutes.