Iva: The Trues Story Of Tokyo Rose

Born in Southern California on the Fourth of July 1916, to parents who immigrated from Japan, Iva Toguri was raised to be an All-American girl. Shortly after graduating from UCLA and because her mother was too ill to travel, Iva was selected to represent the family and travel back to Japan to visit a desperately ill aunt. Arriving in Yokohama in the summer of 1941, Iva is thrown into an alien world where all she wants is to get back home. Then Iva's worst fears are realized as Japan and the US are at war, and she is trapped.

Driven out of her relatives' home because of her refusal to become a Japanese citizen, Iva is forced to find menial jobs to buy food since she is denied a ration card by the government. Taking a position as a typist at Radio Tokyo, she is forced to participate in radio broadcasts to allied troops. At the end of the war, she is misidentified as Tokyo Rose, even though she was but one of twenty women who did broadcasts. Back home, Walter Winchell identifies Iva as having committed treason and makes her an issue in the Presidential election of 1948. The Justice Department tries her in a case that rivets the nation. A racist judge assures her prosecution, and her citizenship is taken away along with a long prison sentence. Later in life, the injustice is finally recognized, and in the final two hours of his presidency, Gerald Ford issues a pardon, restoring Iva's citizenship.

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