Remember Jane

[RICHARD]

The rumors, which first surfaced in email form in late September 1999 (see text on next page), center around Fonda's tour of North Vietnam in 1972, during which she cozied up to the enemy, posing for photo ops with communist troops and broadcasting anti-American propaganda over Radio Hanoi. She also participated in a staged press conference with American servicemen held captive by the Viet Cong, the purpose of which was to "prove" that the POWs were not being mistreated by their captors. Years later when the released POWs described the very real torture and degradation they suffered at the hands of the North Vietnamese, Fonda called them "hypocrites and liars."

Those facts aren't under dispute. Fonda's behavior at that time, considered treasonous by some, earned her the nickname "Hanoi Jane" among the veterans and POWs of the Vietnam War, some of whom hate her to this day.

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Hell, i knew it was her married sister, Kinda Fonda Wanda!

[mugsy]

I reread the snopes article...at the bottom it discounts some and says other parts are true...the "eyewitness" accounts are false, but most of the other is true. The link to snopes in in one of my previous posts.

Doesn't matter to me. She's made nasty comments on other things that makes me dislike the wench anyway. She's simply a second rate actress who tries to make herself more visible.

[leslie flenner]

I was born in 58. I grew up with a politically active mom who went south to teach blacks how to pass the test so they could vote in early 60's, and protested the VN war, (and as a child I participated in sit-ins). I asked her to tell me what all the anger toward JF is about:

any venting of venom like some of those people are doing is not about fonda. it comes out of a world view described in the kerry article i just sent you--the 2nd par., in which kerry's father describes "americans".

the explanation that the snopes commentary provides is fairly good. the antiwar people (including me) were highly patriotic and loved their country, and therefore were passionately concerned about the thousands of vietnamese people the u.s. military & cia were killing in a contrived war, about which the architects of the war were lying. that war has since been unmasked by those very architects (notably, robt. mcnamara--see that documentary; i'm sure it'll be (or is now) in boston) and its illegitimacy exposed for what it was.

we had friends (bruce h, rick s, dennis w), along with thousands of others, who went to prison and to canada & sweden to keep from becoming what they regarded as "murderers in uniform". americans like those described in the kerry article could only see us as treasonous because we were critical of our government when it was known to be lying. (the Assembly of Unrepresented People, the demonstration for which i was arrested & tried & convicted & conviction-overturned-on-appeal in d.c. in aug. 1965, was about the VN war AND about civil rights. the young Yale law student who talked to me in jail was my inspiration for going to law school.)

jane fonda exercised very poor judgment when she went to NVN, esp. because she brought disrepute on the antiwar movement.