{"id":4671,"canonical_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/1977ce-jan-19--4671","name":"1977 CE, January 19","year":1977,"era":"CE","month":1,"day":19,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/1977ce-jan-19--4671","iso-date":"1977-01-19","precision":"year-month-day","description":"\u003cp\u003eU.S. President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) on January 19, 1977, a Japanese-American broadcaster from Japan to U.S. troops during World War II, who, after the war, was convicted of treason and served six years in a U.S. prison. Decades later, it was revealed that key witnesses had been coached by the FBI to lie under oath. President Gerald Ford granted her a full presidential pardon, acknowledging the injustice of her conviction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","additional_details":"\u003cp\u003e\"Tokyo Rose\" was imagined as a single, seductive female traitor by GIs, a legend fueled by media and their own homesickness. In reality \"Tokyo Rose\" was the collective nickname given by Allied soldiers to several English-speaking women who broadcast Japanese propaganda during WWII. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, was born in Los Angeles in 1916 and was a UCLA graduate, Toguri was visiting an ill aunt in Japan when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred in 1941 and she was stranded in Japan and forced to work as a radio announcer for the Zero Hour program. After the war, she was falsely identified as the \"one and only\" Tokyo Rose by journalists and others.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","photo":"","created_at":"2026-01-19T15:26:13-08:00","updated_at":"2026-01-19T16:15:24-08:00","breadcrumbs":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"January History","item":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/january"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"January 19","item":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/january-19"}]},"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Thing","@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/1977ce-jan-19--4671#eventK365","name":"1977 CE, January 19","headline":"U - 1977 CE","description":"U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) on January 19, 1977, a Japanese-American broadcaster from Japan to U.S. troops during...","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/1977ce-jan-19--4671","additionalType":"HistoricalEvent","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2026-01-19T15:26:13-08:00","dateModified":"2026-01-19T16:15:24-08:00","publisher":{"@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/#organizationK365"},"temporalCoverage":"1977-01-19","isPartOf":[{"@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/#websiteK365"},{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/january","name":"What Happened in January History"},{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/january-19#pageK365","name":"What Happened on January 19"}]}}