Friday, March 25, 2022

Enemy broadcasters

Axis Sally

Real name Mildred Gillars.  Radio personality working for Nazi Germany.  Directed propaganda at American GIs during WWII.  American citizen.  First woman convicted of treason.  Released from prison in 1961.


Tokyo Rose

Collective name given to a number of Japanese women broadcasting to soldiers in the South Pacific.  After the war one woman, American citizen Iva Toguri D’Aquino, was convicted of treason.  Pardoned by President Ford because of witness tampering propagated by the American Legion and the FBI.


Hanoi Hannah

Vietnamese propagandist who urged American troops to desert, but somewhat popular because of the music she played.  Real name Trinh Thi Ngo.  Died in 2016 at the age of 85.


Tucker Carlson

Fox News broadcaster in the U.S. who beams Russian propaganda and lies to a large audience in the U.S.  Sponsored by major American businesses.  Still broadcasting. 

3 comments:

  1. Spot on! With any luck he will go to prison. If he does go to prison, some republican president will pardon him though.

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  2. I had watched the movie "Axis Sally" recently on prime. It is a very good movie.

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  3. I would love to see Carlson carted off to jail.

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