The Japanese took a photo of both father and son and asked for a letter that he would hand deliver to Abad Santos family in Manila. Jose Abad Santos y Basco February 19 1886 May 2 1942 was the 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
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Both the photo and the letter gave his wife and family hope and allowed them to keep holding out for better times.
Japanese jose abad santos and son. Abad Santos his son Pepito and Col. Abad Santos was born in City of San Fernando Pampanga to Vicente Abad Santos and Toribia Basco. Witnesses said Abad was magnificently serene when he heard his death sentence Before his death he asked to have a word with his son Pepito.
The father reproached his son but gently said. Cooperation or death by firing squad. Do not cry Pepito Abad Santos told his son.
Benito Valeriano were captured by the Japanese on 11 April 1942 in Barili Cebu. Show these people that you are brave. By April of 1942 though Abad Santos and his son Jose Jr nicknamed Pepito were captured in Cebu.
He was executed by Japanese forces during the occupation of the Philippines in World War II. The Japanese arrested Abad Santos and his son in Cebu province on April 10 1942 a few days after the Chief Justice decided to stay behind to help the Visayan resistance. The last biography on Jose Abad Santos authored by Ramon Aquino came out in 1985.
He was given two options. It was on May 2 1942 when he was executed by a Japanese military unit for refusing to swear allegiance to the Japanese occupation government. When Pepito was returned to his family months later he asked his mother about them.
Show these people that you are brave. On the day he was to face the firing squad he requested for a few minutes with his son Pepito who was also held captive by the Japanese. José Abad Santos y Basco was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
His refusal to collaborate with the Japanese with the Japanese occupational forces resulted in his incarceration torture and death. May 2 1942 was a Saturday. He was shot under a tall coconut tree near a riverbank by a firing squad of seven soldiers.
Through the war his mother had kept it close to her heart. As the Japanese officer left them Abad Santos and his son wondered if he would indeed deliver the letter and picture to Mrs. He told his son these exact words.
It is a rare opportunity for me to die for our country. A Japanese interpreter who testified at a war crimes trial said Abad Santos was magnificently serene when he heard his death sentence. Jose Abad Santos on Stamps.
Show these people that you are brave. On May 2 1942 the date he was to be killed he spent his last moments with his son Pepito Jose Abad Santos Jr reminding him not to cry. Unsurprisingly he and his son were taken to Cotabato then Lanao and were informed by Japanese general Kiyotake Kawaguchi that he would be executed.
Homma imputing the destruction of the bridges and other public works in Cebu to him. When Abad Santos told his son and namesake in the afternoon of that day that he was to be executed the son wept. Refusing to cooperate with the Japanese Abad Santos was ordered executed by Gen.
When Abad Santos told his son Jose Junior on May 2 1942 that he was to be executed that afternoon the son broke down and wept. Martyr and Hero Jose Abad Santos was born in San Fernando Pampanga on February 19 1886 the son of Vicente Abad Santos and Toribia Basco. On May 2 1942 he was executed.
He was the acting President of the Philippines before his capture and his refusal to cooperate earned him martyrdom for the country. Those were the last words of a man to his son about to be executed during the Japanese occupation here in the Philippines. May 2 marks the 76th anniversary of the martyrdom of Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos.
When he refused to cooperate with the Japanese occupation government he was condemned to be executed. Jose Abad Santos opted for martyrdom. All he asked for the interpreter said was to speak to his son Pepito who was interred with him in Malabang Lanao for 10 minutes.
Jose Abad Santos is best known as a jurist. The Japanese soldiers captured him and his son Pepito in Cebu central Philippines. José Abad Santos y Basco February 19 1886 May 2 1942 was the fifth Chief Justice.
The Japanese knowing the high position their prisoner occupied in the Commonwealth Government ordered him to collaborate with them. Do not cry Pepito Abad Santos told his son. In 2018 a new biography written by Desiree Ann Cua-Benipayo has come out on the heels of an Indie movie The Making of a Hero which recalls the inspiring story of Abad Santos life and martyrdom at the hands of the Japanese.
JOSE ABAD SANTOS was arrested along with his son Jose Jr while evading capture from the invading Japanese in the Visayas. Do not cry Pepito. He gained national hero status during World War II.
They were asked to cooperate with the foreign invaders but refused to do so. She showed him the last picture of his father. MW Jose Abad Santos.
He obtained his early education in the town of his birth but in 1904 the Philippine Government sent him to the United States where he studied in Santa Clara College San Jose California and. His name is Jose Abad Santos. Abad Santos kissed his son on the forehead and said God bless you my son He refused to be blindfolded and declined a last cigarette offered by the enemy.
For those who resisted the Japanese occupation they would have met an atrocious fate such as Justice Secretary José Abad Basco Santos 1886-1942 he was executed in Cebu while his home in Mira Nila in Cubao was razed to the ground.
Executedtoday Com 1942 Jose Abad Santos Chief Justice
