Author Topic: 'Tokyo Rose' dies at 90 (Read 1514 times)

Sweet2th · « **Reply #15 on:** September 28, 2006, 12:57:01 AM »

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Now we just have to wait for another treasoner to pass: Jane Fonda.

WORD!!

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We don't know for sure if Iva Toguri D'Aquino was in fact 'Tokyo Rose' and I couldn't find a word in article which claims that, therefore the title is misleading

On the nightly news they said she went to japan from the US before the war broke out and was unable to return to the states so she took a job at the Porpaganda Ministry.They also said she was convicted and served 6 years and President Ford gave her a pardon.

I like the jeapardy smart line.

WAR Trivia:

Who was the only person to be tried, convicted, and executed for War Crimes during the civil War? Without googling it.

Stoney74 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 28, 2006, 01:15:45 AM »

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Originally posted by Sweet2th
WAR Trivia:

Who was the only person to be tried, convicted, and executed for War Crimes during the civil War? Without googling it.

Boothe's doctor? Now I'm going to have to google it to check...If I miss this I may have to get a new avatar...

Sweet2th · « **Reply #17 on:** September 28, 2006, 11:11:29 AM »

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Boothe's doctor?

Hint: He was the commander of a infamous prison.

Iceman24 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 28, 2006, 12:10:44 PM »

henry wurtz(sp) ?

Stoney74 · « **Reply #19 on:** September 28, 2006, 03:26:27 PM »

Andersonville's CO? Don't know his name, but I've been there...

Sweet2th · « **Reply #20 on:** September 28, 2006, 04:04:26 PM »

good job Iceman, did you look it up?

next trivia :

What were Thomas Johnathon jackson's last word's?

Stoney74 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 28, 2006, 04:13:49 PM »

How about:

"For Pete's sake, calm down guys. You look like you're going to shoot somebody"

2bighorn · « **Reply #22 on:** September 28, 2006, 04:44:44 PM »

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Originally posted by Sweet2th
On the nightly news they said she went to japan from the US before the war broke out and was unable to return to the states so she took a job at the Porpaganda Ministry.They also said she was convicted and served 6 years and President Ford gave her a pardon.

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/rose/rose.htm
"In September 1945, after the press had reported that Aquino was “Tokyo Rose,” U.S. Army authorities arrested her. The FBI and the Army’s Counterintelligence Corps conducted an extensive investigation to determine whether Aquino had committed crimes against the U.S. By the following October, authorities decided that the evidence then known did not merit prosecution, and she was released."

http://www.google.com/search?q=Walter+Winchell
"Nevertheless, influential gossip columnist Walter Winchell lobbied against D'Aquino in 1948 upon learning of her attempt to return home. D'Aquino, forcibly separated from her husband, was brought to San Francisco, on September 25, 1948, where the FBI charged her with the crime of treason for "adhering to, and giving aid and comfort to, the Imperial Government of Japan during World War II"."

http://www.google.com/search?q=Morley+Safer
"President Ford pardoned Mrs. D’Aquino, on his last full day in office, after she had appealed to him in writing. The decision was supported by a unanimous vote of the California state legislature, the national Japanese-American Citizens League, and S. I. Hayakawa, then a United States Senator-elect from California. Previously an investigation by Chicago Tribune reporter Ron Yates located Toguri's accusers, who publicly admitted they had committed perjury, claiming they had lied under oath under pressure from prosecutors, which was followed by a Morley Safer report on the television news program 60 Minutes."

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Originally posted by Sweet2th
I like the jeapardy smart line.

Yeah, don't let facts ruin your "Trivia"

FiLtH · « **Reply #23 on:** September 28, 2006, 04:51:41 PM »

'bout time.

BTW · « **Reply #24 on:** September 28, 2006, 05:57:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Stoney74
Boothe's doctor? Now I'm going to have to google it to check...If I miss this I may have to get a new avatar...

Didn't you see the movie with Dennis Weaver? Dr. Mudd was never executed but was released and eventually pardoned (by Carter I think).

Stoney74 · « **Reply #25 on:** September 28, 2006, 06:46:40 PM »

Its all I could think of off the top of my head. I forgot about Andersonville...

I will now consign myself to 8 straight weeks of Civil War refresher history...

BTW · « **Reply #26 on:** September 28, 2006, 06:50:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Stoney74
Its all I could think of off the top of my head. I forgot about Andersonville...

I will now consign myself to 8 straight weeks of Civil War refresher history...

Seriously, it was a good movie. I think it was a TV movie in the late 70's so if you're under 35 or so you probably don't recall it. I doubt its been rerun much.

Sweet2th · « **Reply #27 on:** September 28, 2006, 07:33:13 PM »

Ted Turner did a good job with his movie version of what happened.

Stoney74 · « **Reply #28 on:** September 28, 2006, 10:04:47 PM »

Take a trip there sometime, and imagine how the heck all those prisoners lived there. The little stream that perpetuated all the malaria and yellow fever is still there. I think they're even rebuilding the wall around the camp. There was a short section, maybe 100 meters, there when I visited in '97

Widewing · « **Reply #29 on:** September 29, 2006, 12:09:52 AM »

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Originally posted by Sweet2th
good job Iceman, did you look it up?

next trivia :

What were Thomas Johnathon jackson's last word's?

From memory..... "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees."

My regards,

Widewing