page_title: José Abad Santos
section_title: Date of execution
hierarchical_section_title: José Abad Santos / World War II / Date of execution
caption_attribution_description: English: Upload Wizard photos of -- (general description of landmarks, town, Church, going to dark, sunset conditions) -Town Proper, Downtown, Centro, TayabasTown Hall, Town Plaza and the Heritage Casa de Comunidad de Tayabas 1776 Casa Tribunal de Tayabas Casa Comunidad Historic Landmark by the National Historical Institute - Pook Pangkasaysayang Casa Comunidad the biggest "Bahay na Bato" ever restored [1] Tayabas[2] City.
context_page_description: José Abad Santos was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He briefly served as the Acting President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines during World War II, on behalf of President Quezon after the government went in exile to the United States. After about two months, he was executed by the Japanese forces for refusing to cooperate during their occupation of the country.
  Together with Josefa Llanes-Escoda and Vicente Lim, he is memorialized on the Philippines' 1,000-Peso banknote depicting Filipinos who fought and died resisting the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during the Second World War.
context_section_description: The date of his execution is often reported as May 2, but as former Supreme Court Justice Ramón C. Aquino, Abad Santos's biographer put it, "This (May 2) was the date given by Pepito himself during his testimony at the trials of Generals Yoshihide Hayashi and Kiyotake Kawaguchi. But on the basis of the testimony of Keiji Fukui, the interpreter during Abad Santos's confinement, supported by notations in his diary, the date of Abad Santos's execution was definitely ascertained to be at two o'clock on the afternoon of May 2, 1942."
caption: Abad Santos Monument, Tayabas City
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