‘Haw-Haw’ appears on treason charge 70 years ago today (June 18 1945)


Video: 'William Joyce - Lord Haw Haw (1945)'

(Monday, June 18, 1945; during World War II) — William Joyce (known as “Lord Haw-Haw”), an American-born Irish-British Fascist politician, was charged today in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio.