Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Iva Toguri D'Aquino

World War II propaganda announcer "Orphan Ann", and best-known "Tokyo Rose" announcer

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1916

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Death: 26-Sep-2006

Profession: radio personality

Nationality: Japan, United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino (July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an Japanese American who participated in English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers in the South Pacific during World War II on The Zero Hour radio show.
Toguri called herself "Orphan Ann", but she quickly became identified with the name "Tokyo Rose", coined by Allied soldiers and which predated her broadcasts.
After the Japanese defeat, Toguri was detained for a year by the United States military before being released for lack of evidence.
Department of Justice officials agreed that her broadcasts were "innocuous", but when Toguri tried to return to the US a popular uproar ensued, prompting the Federal Bureau of Investigation to renew its investigation of Toguri's wartime activities.
She was subsequently charged by the United States Attorney's Office with eight counts of treason.
Her 1949 trial resulted in a conviction on one count, for which she spent more than six years out of a ten-year sentence in prison.
Journalistic and governmental investigators years later pieced together the history of irregularities with the indictment, trial, and conviction, including confessions from key witnesses who had perjured themselves at the various stages of their testimonies.
Toguri received a pardon in 1977 from U.S.
President Gerald Ford.