[fishtank]

I wanted to write more on this right now, but I have to go.... family stuff.

[Paradox]

Apparently, she was convicted based on some testimony that was later revealed to be highly suspect.

[rhombus]

Because it felt good; he did it.

[Lando Lincoln]

Uh oh..... I'm sure when you get back, you will have all kinds of helpful comments.

[Alter Kaker]

He did it to end Japan's long national nightmare.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Can Bush pardon Donald Trump and Rosie O donnald so they can shut up?

[HEY4QDEMS]

Why does sour cream have an experation date?

[Argus]

It was the right thing to do. She apparently wasn't even the real "Tokyo Rose" and only collaborated with the Japanese to the extent that it allowed her to help US POW's, which she did. To hear what is evidently her real story, she should have got a medal, not a conviction.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Why do we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway?

[Hatteras]

Hmmm... I thought George Takei was Tokyo Rose.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Why is a ball that hits the foul pole a home run?

[HEY4QDEMS]

Why ask why?

[labette]

Thread from last summer/fall

[Red Badger]

She always maintained (there were 17 "Roses", IIRC) that she was forced to do the broadcasts along with others the Japanese had captured. She was in Japan as a American student when the war broke out and could not come home.

George Takei is gay...........

[cquiggy]

A much better question is. Why did Clintoon pardon so many serious criminals in his last days in office. Enough said.

[MikefromOhio]

Why did Gerald Ford pardon Tokyo Rose?

Because she wasn't Tokyo Rose?????? Nah that couldn't be it could it????

Also, in 2004, George Takei, the manly man from Star Trek, said he's going to be making a movie called: "Tokyo Rose, American Patriot".

And what the hell does THAT have to do with the original question????

[Vigilanteman]

Tokyo Rose was never a traitor by choice unlike Cindy Sheehan, Ramsey Clark and others of their ilk. She was visiting relatives in Japan when the war broke out and pressed into service. Even then, she refused to renounce her U.S. citizenship or cooperate with her captors, making minimal efforts to go along only reluctantly when she learned that Earl Warren and FDR had put her family in America into detention camps.

I don't agree with much of what Ford did, but he definitely made the right decision in pardoning her.

[Lando Lincoln]

The Painful Ordeal of Tokyo Rose

[colorado tanker]

Yep, it appears she was convicted on perjured testimony.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1709031/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660353/posts

[JRios1968]

I wanted to write more on this right now, but I have to go.... family stuff.

You take showers with the family??

[txroadkill]

Iva Ikuko Toguri was tried and convicted as "Tokyo Rose", however, Ms. Toguri was actually an American who was in Japan visiting Relatives when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She was forced to renounce her American citizenship (although she claimed she never did). While in Japan she learned Japanese and ended up getting a job as a typist at a radio station, where, according to American and British POW's she smuggled medicine and food to them when they were brought in and forced to broadcast Japanese Propaganda.

Tokyo Rose was just a name US Sailors and Marines gave to any female Japanese "DJ" during the War.