Film 'Voice of the truth' dramatizes reactions of U.S. Army soldiers listening to Japanese propagandist Tokyo Rose report the news. The propaganda report makes an effort to convince troops that the people at home are not interested in soldiers. The United States troops smoke and relax while listening to music on radio below decks on troop transport ship. Soldier writes on a piece of paper. Another soldier checks rifle. Troops get on to landing crafts from ships and prepare to fight. A soldier questions the propaganda. (World War II period).
Re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by Iva Ikuko Toguri as 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. Iva Ikuko Toguri begins the broadcast, saying, 'Greetings everybody! This is your Number One Enemy, your favorite playmate, Orphan Ann on Radio Tokyo...the little sunbeam whose throat you'd like to cut! Get ready again for a vicious assault on your morale, 75 minutes of music and news for our friends...I mean, our enemies!' A male announcer, possibly her husband, Felipe d' Aquino, reads propaganda news about Pacific battles and American casualties. Toguri was wrongly tried and sentenced for being 'Tokyo Rose' a supposed Radio Tokyo character that was never identified. (World War II period).
Re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. Radio announcer Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Iva Ikuko Toguri before marriage) speaking in English tells about her life since the day she left Los Angeles where she was born and came to Japan to visit a sick aunt. She talks about how she came to work for the Japanese government. Iva Ikuko Toguri would later be wrongly convicted as the voice behind 'Tokyo Rose' a legendary radio personality that was never found.
Re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. Radio announcer, possibly Felipe d' Aquino, reads from a sheet of paper. He reads Japanese propaganda suggesting that the capture of Okinawa was a worthless sacrifice of American lives.
Iva Ikuko Toguri re-enacts a broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by Radio Tokyo. Radio announcer Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Iva Ikuko Toguri before marriage) introduces herself as the 'little sunbeam who's throat you'd like to cut' She then introduces a song called 'I don't Want to Work' She would later be wrongly accused of being the voice of the legendary Tokyo Rose.
Radio Tokyo Station announcer Iva Toguri D'Aquino (wrongly accused of being Tokyo Rose) speaks in English about her life since the day she left Los Angeles where she was born and came to Japan to visit a sick aunt. This is during a re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' in which she played the character 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. She talks about how she came to work for the Japanese government.
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