Richard W. Haymaker Yoshihiro Hattori Papers Mss.#4698 Location: 21:1-4 Acc.#98-016
Yoshihiro Hattori was a Japanese exchange student living with the Haymaker family of Baton Rouge. In October 1992, Yoshi, confused about the address of a party, mistakenly knocked on the door of the Peairs family. Rodney Peairs shot and killed Yoshi. This event sparked an international incident and triggered a push for greater gun control, including a petition drive in both the U.S. and Japan. The killing of his host-son spurred Richard Haymaker to become a leading social activist in the area of gun control and violence prevention.
The collection chronicles both the events surrounding the shooting of Yoshihiro Hattori and the repercussions that followed, including the Haymakers' activism efforts, their trip to Japan, and President Clinton's meeting with the Hattori family. It consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, civil trial papers, videotapes, audiotapes, CD's, books, magazines, and records of various groups formed in the wake of the killing.
Container List BOX FOLDERS CONTENTS
| Box 1 | 1-7, 53 | Advocate (Baton Rouge) |
| 7, 33, 37 | USA Today | |
| 7-9, 50, 51 | New York Times | |
| 10 | Japan Times | |
| 11 | Japanese Newspapers | |
| 12 | Times Picayune (New Orleans) | |
| 13 | Asian-American Newspapers | |
| 14 | Seattle | |
| 15, 29, 43 | Misc. Newspaper Opinions | |
| 16 | Minneapolis | |
| 17 | Atlanta | |
| 18 | Misc. Foreign Newspapers | |
| 19 | Boston Globe | |
| 20 | Boulder Camera | |
| 21 | Denver Post | |
| 22 | Baltimore Sun | |
| 23 | Des Moines Register | |
| 24 | Connecticut | |
| 25, 48 | Chicago Tribune | |
| 26 | Grand Haven, Michigan | |
| 27 | Daily Reveille (LSU) | |
| 28 | California | |
| 30 | Other Japanese Victims | |
| 31 | Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles) | |
| 32 | Magazine Articles | |
| 34 | Washington Post | |
| 35 | Syndicated Columnists | |
| 36 | Wall Street Journal | |
| 38 | Texas | |
| 39 | Shreveport, LA | |
| 40 | Misc. Periodicals | |
| 41 | Omaha, NE | |
| 42 | New Jersey | |
| 44 | Maryland/Washington, D.C. | |
| 45 | San Francisco/Oakland | |
| 46 | Los Angeles | |
| 47 | Las Vegas | |
| 49 | Iowa |
BOX FOLDERS CONTENTS
52 Arkansas 54 Another Magnum 55 Gun Crazy
Box 2 1 Archive (Petition Drive)
2 Asian Law Caucus
3 Meg Arnold USF
4 Athelyn Buckley AFS Dallas
5 American Association of School Administration
6 American College of Surgeons
7 Atlantic Magazine
8 ABC 20/20
9 Mike Armacost, Ambassador to Japan
10 Alternatives to Violence
11 Asian American Legal Defense & Educational Fund
12 American Jewish Congress
13 Ann Bartley, Office of the First Lady
14 Bryant
15 Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senator (California)
16 David Behrens, reporter for New York Newsday
17 Jan Penny Brucher
18 Robert C. Buckley, M.D.
19 Boston Public Schools
20 Kurt Bateman
21 Frances Berland
22 Jennifer Bowen
23 Cameron Beck
24 Margie Broyles
25 Boulder County, Colorado
26 Weekly Bunsun
27 Janice Brown
28 Andrew Burness
29 Children’s Express
30 Brian Covert (American journalist in Japan)
31 Computer Network
32 Church of Christ (Boulder, CO)
33 Carrie Chimerine
| BOX | FOLDERS | CONTENTS |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | Joseph Califano | |
| 35 | Chico Peace and Justice Center (California) | |
| 36 | Common Ground (Baton Rouge, LA) | |
| 37 | Connecticut Coalition Against Gun Violence | |
| 38 | Sherry Caves (Madison, WI) | |
| 39 | Chicago Community Trust | |
| 40 | Anne Chamberlain (Simon’s Rock college) | |
| 41 | Bonnie Carol (Colorado) | |
| 42 | Judy Collins | |
| 43 | Senator John Chafee | |
| 44 | Tom Dostou | |
| 45 | Duluth Children’s Coalition | |
| 46 | Patrick Daley | |
| 47 | Episcopal Church | |
| 48 | Stephan Fosdick | |
| 49 | Florida Coalition to Stop Gun Violence | |
| 50 | Friends Committee on National Legislation | |
| 51 | Al Franken | |
| 52 | Cathy Fry | |
| 53 | Farm Bureau | |
| 54 | Jim Frederick | |
| 55 | Bernard Friedlander | |
| 56 | Sherry Falk | |
| 57 | Family Circle | |
| 58 | Grand Haven, Michigan | |
| 59 | Marcia Germain | |
| 60 | Frank Higgins (Gun Play) | |
| 61 | Teresa Hsu | |
| 62 | Sara Harkness | |
| 63 | Jim Golen | |
| 64 | Ellen Goodman | |
| 65 | Good Housekeeping | |
| 66 | G. Hogg | |
| 67 | Handgun Control | |
| 68 | International Neighbors | |
| 69 | Amy Isaac | |
| 70 | Shigeru Inagaki | |
| 71 | IARF | |
| 72 | Japanese American Citizens League | |
| 73 | Johns Hopkins | |
| 74 | Katsumi Hiragi | |
| 75 | Molly Ivins |
BOX FOLDERS CONTENTS
76 Roberta Jackson (contact for Janet Reno) 77 Jotted notes 78 Jabberwocky (play inspired by Yoshi’s story) 79 Japbird (play performed in San Francisco based on Yoshi) 80 C. Everett Koop 81 Mieko Kosobachi (Washington, D.C.) 82 David Keyes (Skyline Church, Oakland, CA) 83 Cathy Kroon (AFS) 84 Katrina Kernoble (reporter in Japan) 85 Kids and Guns (California Group) 86 Kentucky Council on Peacemaking 87 Jane Kelso (handgun control) 88 Ann Landers/Dear Abby 89 LaLonde (Committee Chair, LA Legislature) 90 Sally Miley (Wisconsin activist) 91 Minneapolis Children’s Foundation 92 Methodists 93 Robbie Madden 94 Robert Manning 95 Dorothy Morefield 96 David Monkawa 97 Mainichi (Japanese newspaper) 98 Memorial Services at the Unitarian Church 99 Carol McLaughlin 100 Betty Mathews 101 Roberta Myers (Tell Magazine) 102 Malchow Direct Mail Company 103 Kevin Moll 104 Doug Moreau 105, 116 Newsweek 106 Walter Mondale 107 National Organization of Victim Assistance 108 New York Times Ad Information 109 New Zealand Gun Control Contacts 110 New York Times Op-Ed correspondence 111 NAFSA Association of International Educators 112 National Alliance for Safe Schools 113 Norio Osada (Japanese film director) 114 NPR 115 Nichi Bei (New York Japanese newspaper) 117 Ken Nakashige 118 D&F Namkoong
BOX FOLDERS CONTENTS
119 OCS (Japanese newspaper) 120 Joe Ohno 121 Organization List 122 Organizations in limbo 123 Oakland Coalition of Congregations 124 Ohio Gun Control Groups 125 Poems dedicated to Yoshi 126 Phi Beta Kappa 127 Petition Forms (U.S.) 128 Petition Forms (Japan) 129 Presbyterians 130 Petit and Martin Law firm (San Francisco) 131 Richard Pelz 132 Francine Landreneau 133 Eileen Peck 134 PLEASE (Rhode Island) 135 Project Vote Smart 136 Philadelphia Anti Drug/Anti Violence Task Force 137 Parents of Murdered Children 138 Peace Links 139 Janet Reno 140 Rafu Shimpo, Nisei Week 141 AFS Officials 142 Pat Schroeder 143 Sackett Productions 144 Smith College Alumni Magazine 145 Bill Schneider (Film Writer) 146 Steve Stukas 147 Jim Shimko (Folkbeat Percussion) 148 Simon’s Rock College 149 Jeremiah Sullivan (Project in Arms Control - Illinois)
Box 3 1 Holly Shaw (American Academy of Pediatrics)
2 Steve Shepherd (Unitarian Church, Connecticut)
3 South Bend, Indiana (Mayor)
4 School Boards, national
5 Social Workers, National Association of
6 Hartley House, New York
7 Dick and Judy Stein (Massachusetts)
8 SAM (Medical meeting, Chicago)
9 State Groups, partial list
10 “Speakeasy” (English language magazine - France)
| BOX | FOLDERS | CONTENTS |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | SOSAD (Detroit, Clementine Barfield) | |
| 12 | Unity and Diversity World Council | |
| 13 | Tim Talley (Reporter for Advocate - Baton Rouge) | |
| 14 | Time Magazine | |
| 15 | Petition Tally, Nov.1993 | |
| 16 | Tari’s School of Dance | |
| 17 | Travel Industry | |
| 18 | Two PM PR Agency | |
| 19 | USA Today | |
| 20 | Garrick Utley (NBC News) | |
| 21 | U.S. Department of Justice | |
| 22 | Unistar Film Productions | |
| 23 | Victims Organizations | |
| 24 | Janelle Wargo | |
| 25 | Washington Post (T.R. Reid) | |
| 26 | Women in Coalition (California) | |
| 27 | Washington D.C. gun control efforts | |
| 28 | Wisconsin Medical College | |
| 29 | Allen Williams (Public Relations person for AFS) | |
| 30 | Youth Alive | |
| 31 | Yomiuri America (Japanese newspaper) | |
| 32 | Yoshi Song | |
| 33 | Unitarian Church (Baton Rouge) | |
| 34 | New England Journal of Medicine | |
| 35 | Pete Stark (California congressman) | |
| 36 | Y Project | |
| 37 | President Clinton’s phone conversation with Hattoris | |
| 38 | White House correspondence | |
| 39 | NRA/Gun Groups/Hate Mail | |
| 40 | Letters from journalists | |
| 41 | Talks by Richard Haymaker | |
| 42 | Correspondence with The Advocate (Baton Rouge) | |
| 43 | Angela Show (local New Orleans TV show) | |
| 44 | American Academy of Pediatrics | |
| 45 | Global Art Project | |
| 46 | ACT (All Congregations Together) | |
| 47 | Ingrid Becher | |
| 48 | Baton Rouge Green | |
| 49 | Richard Baker (U.S. congressman, Louisiana) | |
| 50 | Baton Rouge Round Table | |
| 51 | Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce | |
| 52 | Bienville House for Peace and Justice |
| BOX | FOLDERS | CONTENTS |
|---|---|---|
| 53 54 55 56 57 58 | Baton Rouge High Japan Club CeaseFire Inc. Correspondence Christine Choy (Chair of NYU Film School) Shoot the Carjacker Law Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Chain of Rememberance | |
| 59 60 61 | Carleton College Dale Coker (journalist in Japan) Children’s Defense Fund | |
| 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 | Hattori Trip To Washington, Nov.1993 Catholic Sister organizations Jim Murray (Boston Ceasefire) Washington (State) Ceasefire Mike Beard (CSGV) Gilles Delafon (French journalist) Janet Dewey Evie Dolven (Lutheran church, California) Julie Elseroad (Maryland activist) Baton Rouge Exchange Club Stan Feldman | |
| 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 | Fellowship of Reconciliation Guardian Angels Georgia (petition drive) Jim Guest (President of Handgun Control Inc.) George Gund Foundation Holley and Richard Haymaker statement (Nov.4, 1992) Hugh O’Brian Youth Des Moines | |
| 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 | Handgun Control Inc. Sarah Brady Keiri Hosaka (researcher on gun violence) Lois Hess (Board Member, HCI) Richard Haymaker (letters to the editor and op-ed piece) Iowa City Illinois gun control group Tina Johnstone | |
| 89 | Alston Johnston | |
| 90 | Kiwanis Club | |
| 91 92 | National Organization for Women Frank Neelis (founder of Louisiana Ceasefire) |
| BOX | FOLDERS | CONTENTS |
|---|---|---|
| 93 | Yuri Katto | |
| 94 | Louisiana in Japan Association | |
| 95 | Lafayette Diocese (Una Hargrave, peace activist) | |
| Box 4 | 1 | Ellen Saxon |
| 2 | League of Women Voters | |
| 3 | First Citizen’s Conference to Stop Gun Violence (1994) | |
| 4 | Times Picayune (New Orleans) Op-ed piece by the Hattoris | |
| 5 | Nancy Gannon | |
| 6 | Mother’s Day Chain of Rememberance | |
| 7 | Roberta Madden | |
| 8 | Trudy Meyers | |
| 9 | Milwaukee gun control effort | |
| 10 | Minnesota | |
| 11 | Missouri | |
| 12 | Shuji Matsuura | |
| 13 | Misc. Letters | |
| 14 | Tetsuhiro Kuno (Japanese journalist) | |
| 15 | Yoshinori Kamo (Mr. Hattori’s interpreter) | |
| 16 | Congressman Wyden | |
| 17 | Texas Gun Control Groups | |
| 18 | Sazerzac Corporation, New Orleans | |
| 19 | Survive | |
| 20 | Silent March | |
| 21 | Sarah Brady press conference | |
| 22 | Letters from Senators and Congressmen | |
| 23 | Ron Spivey (Angola inmate) | |
| 24 | Rotary Club, Zachary, LA | |
| 25 | Rotary Club, New Orleans | |
| 26 | Radio talk show | |
| 27 | Peace Action of Southern California | |
| 28 | Peace Pole | |
| 29 | Nicole Pastore (policy analyst for Gov. Foster) | |
| 30 | Student Pledge against gun violence | |
| 31 | Peace Action | |
| 32 | Oregon | |
| 33 | Citizen’s Conference Against Gun Violence (Nov.1995) | |
| 34 | First National Conference on Gun Violence | |
| 35 | Neville Brothers | |
| 36 | Public Law Center (New Orleans) | |
| 37 | Unitarian Churches (petition mailings) | |
| 38 | Victims and Citizens Against Crime | |
| 39 | YWCA Baton Rouge |
40 YWCA Week Without Violence 41 EBR Parish grant application 42 WRKF day sponsorship 43 Barry Weinstein 44 Christine Wiltz 45 Itkuko Yamagishi 46 Grassroots Manual
47 48 49 50, 51 52 53 Peace Stones Baton Rouge Network Citizens Take Charge Meetings/Minutes Membership Miscellaneous
| SERIES IV. YOSHI’S GIFT | ||
|---|---|---|
| 54 | 1996 | |
| 55 | 1997 | |
| SERIES V. LOUISIANA CEASEFIRE DOCUMENTS | ||
| 56 | Archive of written material | |
| 57 | Joint Handgun Control Inc. - Louisiana Ceasefire | |
| 58 | Concealed handgun bill | |
| 59 | Miscellaneous materials on concealed handguns | |
| SERIES VI. GUN RESPONSIBILITY TASK FORCE OF THE | ||
| SOCIAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE OF THE UNITARIAN | ||
| UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF BATON ROUGE | ||
| 60 | AFS Yoshi Fund | |
| 61 | Contributions | |
| 62 | Finances | |
| 63 | General | |
| SERIES VII. LETTERS TO HAYMAKERS | ||
| Box 5 | 1 | Churches and Religous Organizations |
| 2 | Petition Drive | |
| 3 | Personal Tragedies with Guns | |
| 4 | Stories Concerning Guns | |
| 5 | Family Circle Readers | |
| 6 | Japanese Friendships | |
| 7, 8 | AFS Families | |
9 Petition Returns 10 Miscellaneous Gun Stuff 11 Petitions, miscellaneous letters 12 Letters concerning petitions 13, 14 Sympathy letters 15, 16 Miscellaneous notes and requests for petitions
17, 18 Statements/testimony 19 Deposition 20 Testimony
21 Notes, cards, yearbook, handbook
Binder Kobe, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Kanazawa, Osaka,
ITIN, Talks
SERIES X. VIDEOTAPES
Box 6 Tape 1 NHK (Japan) News Footage
Tape 2 CBC News April 10, 19
Tape 3, 4, 12, 26 Yoshi Coverage
Tape 5 Justice Files - “Yoshi” 12/23/95
Tape 6 News Clips - “The Hattori Story”
Tape 7 Yoshi’s Memorial
Tape 8 Bob Dotson’s NBC coverage of criminal trial 5/16/93
Tape 9 AFS Texas Orientation
Tape 10 ABC Nightline 5/10/93
Tape 11 Petition Drive
Tape 13 Yoshi Hattori’s Case - Japanese News
Tape 14 Yamagata News Coverage - March 1995
Tape 15 Dianne Sawyer lead into Al Dale ABC - October 1992
Tape 16 20/20 ABC 10/29/93
Tape 17 Between the Lines - KERA Dallas - 10/14/93
Tape 18 TV Asahi Atlanta office
Tape 19, 23, 25, 32 Inside Edition
Tape 20, 39 NBC - Homicide 4/28/95
Tape 21 Baton Rouge Coverage - Lai Chan - 11/16/92
Tape 22 “Hunting Season” - early version of documentary by
Christine Choy, later called “Shot Heard Around the World”
Tape 24 Angela Show “Family for Yoshi Hattori” - New Orleans
BOX FOLDERS CONTENTS
Tape 27 Song of Yoshi, TV News in Japan - Nov./Dec. 1992 Tape 28, 30 PSA spots Tape 29 Yoshi March (Silent March) Sept.1994, Washington D.C. Tape 31 WVLA and WAFB - Jury selection 5/17/93 - Baton Rouge Tape 33 Haymakers Nagoya visit, Asahi TV 7/14/94 Tape 34 Concealed handgun action (Haymaker) Tape 35 “Shot Heard Around the World” Tape 36 Louisiana Ceasefire response to concealed handgun course Tape 37 “Japbird” - play in San Francisco 10/31/93 Tape 38 Taiko Tape 40 Nippon TV network news Tape 41 “Wrongful Death” - Chris Choy documentary - early cut Tape 42 US/Japan Friction - TV Asahi 9/26/93 Tape 43 TV coverage in Japan, Oct.1992 on Tape 44 Clinton - Yoshi PSA, Japanese TV concert
Box 7 Violente Amerique Une Democratie en armes, Gilles Delafon Silent March, Koichi Sunada Yoshi’s Story, Mieko and Masaichi Hattori Freeze, Tim Talley Freedom,Rights and Responsibilities, Norma Reveler, Hiromi Nema On This Site, Landscape in Memoriam, Joel Sternfeld Hattori’s Classmates, Keisuke Mishikawa Overcoming Yoshi’s Death, Yoko Igarash No Time for Goodbyes, Janice Harris Lord
Box 8
“People Magazine”, 11/16/92 “Family Circle”, 9/21/93 “Tell”, Fall 1993, Spring 1994 “Southern Exposure”, Sept.1994 “Bungeishunju” (2 issues) “The Economist”, 5/29-6/4, 1993 “U.S. News and World Report”, 6/7/93 “Harper’s”, April 1993 “AFS World” v.2 no.4; v.3 .no.2 “World Magazine” Sept./Oct.1993; Nov./Dec.1993
“Intersect” “Christian Social Action”, Sept.1993 “Interpreter”, April 1994 “NAFSA” Newsletter Smith College Alumni Magazine “Speakeasy” “Bad News” “Japan Quarterly” “Nisei Week” “Messages” Choral score “To Yoshi’s Mothers All Over the World” Creating Images, Mansfield Center Memorial Service Booklet Dance concert program (Tari’s School of Dance) “The Boy Who Loved America” (screenplay)
Box 9
CD Yoshi - A Boy Who Loved America
Tape President Clinton’s phone call to Hattoris
Tape “Living in Fear”
Tape Meeting between Dorothy Mayfield and the Hattoris
Tape “Yoshi” song, Akemi Mano
Tape R. Haymaker, CBS Radio
Tape Andre Trevine Show, New Orleans - R. Haymaker
Tape R. Haymaker on Wisconsin Public Radio
Tape WJBO, Baton Rouge, July 1993 - R. Haymaker
Tape Broadcast - May 24, 1993 - R. Haymaker
Series XIV. Misc. Newspapers
Box 10
Virginia Pilot & Ledger Star 1/3-1/9 1993
Misc. Japanese Newspapers