This Date in THE FBI History: Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Benson Fong, James Hong, and Charles Aidman star in “The Hiding Place,” an episode that was supposed to air on Mar. 6, 1966. However, after mounting protests from Japanese-American groups, ABC pulled this episode from the broadcast schedule. As a result, “The Hiding Place” never aired on television, either on ABC or in syndication. For the complete back story of this controversial episode, pick up a copy of THE FBI DOSSIER, now available from Black Pawn Press

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    THE HIDING PLACE
    Scheduled Airdate: Mar. 6, 1966; however, this episode never aired on ABC

Synopsis. In Green Haven, Oregon—a town with a large Asian-American population—Erskine and Rhodes search for Kenjiro Fujita, a former Japanese-American military officer who turned traitor against the United States and committed war crimes against POWs during the Bataan Death March, including several instances of brutal torture. A hubcap found at the scene of a hit-and-run accident in Green Haven reveals Fujita’s fingerprints. But when the driver turns out to be another man, Erskine’s only hope of identifying Fujita lies with surviving POW Eric Delbey—a severely traumatized man whom Fujita blinded during the war.

LEARN MORE about “The Hiding Place”—the only episode of The FBI that never aired on ABC television, nor in syndication—in THE FBI DOSSIER, everything you wanted to know about the long-running ABC-TV series produced by Quinn Martin and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

THE FBI DOSSIER is available through Black Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online.

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