WAR CRIMES TRIALS (TOJO DEFENSE), TOKYO, JAPAN Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 6889 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2147) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 972' ea Comp (Std) 6889-1 WAR CRIMES TRIALS (TOJO DEFENSE) Tokyo, Japan 29 Dec 47 Mr Blewett, defense attorney, reading the opening statement for Hideki Tojo. LS, back of judges' bench, showing Tojo in witness box listening to Blewett. In part of the statement Tojo tells of sending Kurusu to Washington to assist Namuru in renegotiating agreement with the U S. Another thing that was not known to Tojo until termination of the war was that the Americans had broken the Japanese secret code. 30 Dec MS, Tojo in box listening to Blewett. Cut back to Mr Blewett reading the statement. Telephoto shots of defendants Araki, Umezu, Oka, Hirazuma, Togo, and Sato; Matsui, Oshima, Koiso, Hashimoto, Doihara, Hata, Hirota, Minami, Kido, Kimura, Suzuki, and Itagaki. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle Signal Corps ADC 6889 111 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2147) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 972' ea Comp (Std) 6889-2 WAR CRIMES TRIALS Cont'd (TOJO DEFENSE) Cont'd Tokyo, Japan 30 Dec Cont'd Cut, people in the press section. Another part of Tojo's statement says the fruitless and unnecessary war fought in the Pacific was instigated by the Allied powers in an effort to get the US into European conflict. Tojo answering a few questions put to him by Blewett. One of them is, if Tojo knew that Sugiyama of the military staff had a conference with the Emperor on a certain matter. Camera runs out at this point. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities