Iva Toguri D’Aquino
Radio Personality
Iva Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino (1916-2006) was born in Los Angeles to Japanese immigrant parents and received a BA degree in zoology from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1941, she went to Japan to take care of an ailing relative and was stranded there when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. As a prisoner of war, she was forced to broadcast propaganda and became known as “Tokyo Rose,” for which she was falsely imprisoned for treason. In 1977, President Gerald Ford pardoned her of all charges and she later received the Edward J. Herlihy Citizenship Award in 2005.
(Portrait by Sarah Palmer, SFSU 2015)
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