Zero Hour Broadcast of August 14, 1944 with Iva Toguri D'Aquino as "Ann the Orphan." CLICK TO PLAY RECORDING CLICK AGAIN TO STOP RECORDING RIGHT CLICK FOR PLAYER OPTIONS This recording was made by the Federal Communications Commission, Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, which operated between 07/28/1942 and 12/30/1945. This sound recording captures a “Zero Hour” Japanese broadcast to Allied forces in the South Pacific. This broadcast contains music; war news and commentary; music with "Ann the Orphan." The woman in this broadcast is one of a group of women, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American, who hosted Japanese propaganda broadcast aimed at U.S. forces in the Pacific. The women, both collectively and separately were dubbed "Tokyo Rose" by the American military. The broadcasts included news from the United States, music and commentary. In a controversial trial, Japanese American Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino, identified by the U.S. Government as one of the women known as "Tokyo Rose" who were retained by the Government of Japan to make radio broadcasts, was convicted of treason. This lead to her becoming the individual most referred to as "Tokyo Rose." D'Aquino was indicted on October 8, 1948, on a charge of treason, the accusation being that she aided the enemy by broadcasting the Japanese "Zero Hour" program over Radio Tokyo to U.S. and Allied troops from November 1943 to August 1945. The jury found D'Aquino guilty on September 29, 1949. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. D'Aquino was released from the Federal Reformatory for Women at Alderson, WV, on January 6, 1956, and was finally discharged by expiration of sentence October 6, 1959. An application for pardon was filed on her behalf in 1968. It included a report that a witness lied before the grand jury that indicted d'Aquino. A pardon was granted by President Gerald Ford in 1977. Also available is the title Tokyo Rose FBI Files - http://www.paperlessarchives.com/rose.html .