Editing Kenedy, Texas (section)

==History==
In the early 1900s many of Kenedy's gunfighter shootings caused the town to be nicknamed "Six Shooter Junction".<ref name="tsha1">[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hgk05 Handbook of Texas Online.]</ref>

During World War II, the [[Kenedy Allen Detention Camp]] was located near the outskirts of the town, on a former [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] site. Though it later served as a [[prisoner of war]] camp, it started as an [[internment]] camp for people of German, Italian, and Japanese ancestry deported from [[Latin America]], as well as some who were long-term residents of the U.S.<ref name="tsha1"/><ref name=Mak>Mak, Stephen. [http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Kenedy%20%28detention%20facility%29/ "Kenedy (detention facility)"] ''Densho Encyclopedia'' (accessed 17 Jun 2014).</ref> The camp opened in April 1942, when the first group of Latin American deportees arrived: 456 Germans, 156 Japanese and 14 Italians.<ref name=Mak/> Despite State Department prisoner exchanges, in which German and Japanese Latin Americans were "repatriated" and traded for U.S. citizens in [[Axis powers|Axis]] custody, Kenedy's population swelled to 2,007 by October 1943: 1,168 Germans, 705 Japanese, 72 Italians, and 62 "miscellaneous".<ref name=Mak/> The 705 of Japanese descent included U.S. civilians.<ref name=NPS>J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, R. Lord. ''Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites'': [http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropology74/ce17d.htm "Department of Justice Internment Camps: Kenedy, Texas"] National Park Service (accessed 17 Jun 2014).</ref> In 1944, the remaining internees were transferred to other facilities, and by September it had been converted to a German POW camp; beginning in July 1945, the camp was also used to house Japanese POWs.<ref name=NPS/> The camp was closed at the end of the war, in September 1945.<ref name=Mak/>

The [[John B. Connally Unit]], a state prison, is located {{convert|2|mi|0}} south of the city limits. On December 13, 2000, a group called the [[Texas Seven]] escaped from that prison. They would go on a deadly crime spree before being caught.

On July 24, 2019, the Karnes Countywide Newspaper featured a story on a Kenedy house with ties to a world famous San Antonio landmark.  Blueprints by Hugman-Silber Architects were discovered in the cedar closet of the house.  The blueprints were drawn and traced by [[Robert H.H. Hugman]], the acknowledged visionary behind the [[San Antonio River Walk]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mysoutex.com/karnes_countywide/news/entertainment_and_society/kenedy-house-has-ties-to-sa-riverwalk/article_7a66dea6-ae32-11e9-9eea-9774ca807b75.html|title=Kenedy house has ties to SA Riverwalk|website=mysoutex|date=July 24, 2019 |language=en|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref>