Tokyo Rose obituary [audio 7min @20:57]

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who died yesterday at age 90, was host of Radio Tokyo's 1940s"Zero Hour" program, broadcast to American and Allied forces fighting in the Pacific. Ms. Toguri D'Aquino was better known to the soldiers as"Orphan Ann". Unfortunately, she later became known as the infamous"Tokyo Rose" -- a name synonymous with anti-American propaganda. Iva Toguri D'Aquino was a Japanese-American who was in Japan visiting an ailing aunt when war broke out. As the only known American woman broadcasting for Radio Tokyo, she was tried for treason by the US after the war ended. But in 1976, a series of articles by a Chicago Tribune reporter Ron Yates cast doubt on the evidence used to convict her, and she was given a presidential pardon. Yates is now dean of the College of Communications at the University of Illinois.