The cover called her Ms. Though Fonda has been an activist throughout her life, the only other time she has spent the night in jail was in 1970, when she was 32, on a speaking tour protesting the Vietnam War. The "New World Order" of the capitalists and the communists is not "Jewish", sir. Fonda addresses the media in December 1972 to protest U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. These horrendous claims went around the nation on the Internet, resulting in a great deal of anger and consternation among veterans. I did not know then. And four months later, the bombing stopped of the dikes. And you were photographed sitting on an anti aircraft gun. Christopher Andersen, Citizen Jane (New York: Henry Holt and Company. More than 58,000 Americans died in the war.. HANNITY: Is Jane Fonda really sorry or just trying to sell her brand new book? One of the definitions of treason is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. CHRIS So did Joan Baez and William Sloane Coffin, Noam Chomsky and Pete Seeger, Rennie Davis and Judy Collins. Its something very like the worst sort of lovers betrayal, the deep wound that time itself often is powerless to heal. CHRIS WALLACE: Who the people in the Nixon administration? Now, I can't judge her heart but it's a different manifestation of Christianity than John Paul II (search). And it was a terrible mistake because of the image that it showed, which was not at all what the reality was. [3] She praised the USSR for their support of the Viet Cong. It never happened. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. I mean, the fact is, there's no statute on treason, by the way. AND JANE FONDA: It was a terrible mistake. Yeah, said my stepdaughter, Jill, when I told her about this. There is no doubt these treasonous no-win US wars were meant to disillusion the American nation into accepting loss of sovereignty and one world government." In 1972, the Academy Award-winning actress and activist traveled to North Vietnam and was photographed laughing and clapping along with Vietnamese soldiers. Thus, the U.S.A. deliberately betrayed its former ally Chiang Kai-Shek and gave mainland China to communism. We have no right to attack that country. But literally working hand-in-hand with the enemy to promote their cause to a worldwide audience was not protected by the First Amendment then just as it is not protected now. CHRIS WALLACE: When you got that nickname Hanoi Jane, how did you feel at the time? The story surfaced on the Internet in 1999, and my guess is that it will live there a long time. I dont think they know, Fonda said in a news conference when she returned home. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How are you, G.I. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Fonda told Wallace that she did not like the nickname she was given, but she stuck by her choice to oppose the war. Her attackers renewed an old strike against the image of an actress who grew up as the daughter of the All-American Henry Fonda, yet became synonymous with the various rebellions of the Sixties. quote: Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War. At that time, over 60,000 American soldiers had lost their lives, and almost one million Vietnamese. We're going to take them out. And you were photographed sitting on an anti aircraft gun. She visited Russia in the early Sixties, and was personally impressed by the deference she received. This is not a legal transcript for purposes of litigation. "Flashpoint Vietnam," the real story about the road to the war. Even Trotsky, whose philosophy I do not advocate, could see this relationship between the capitalists and the communists clearly (hypocritically denouncing it, since he went along with it). Mao Tse-Tung, of "Little Red Book" fame, and darling of the New York-Hollywood "elite", then proceeded to murder 65 million of his countrymen in what David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski call "a glorious revolution." Shewas active in the Black Panthers and marched for the rights of American Indians, soldiers and working mothers. The chance to remake oneself is a universally acknowledged strength of this Republic, and the Republic itself has done it often enough. She so symbolized the divided nation, hawks arrayed against her and doves siding with her, that she became a personal target, most recently with allegations about personal involvement in the mistreatment of POWs. She said in a 1973 interview elaborating on the hypocrites and liars statement that it would be understandable for the North Vietnamese to torture POWs who tried to escape. In July of 1972, she made two trips to Hanoi which earned her the nickname Hanoi Jane. And you know, maybe I was set up but I was an adult, its Im gonna take responsibility for it. JANE FONDA: Well, I didnt like it. Heres the picture that was used to shut shut down American plants, critics, and there were millions of them, called you a Hanoi Jane and said you were a traitor. Was Jane Fonda's sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun that was used to shoot at and kill Americans, and launching an anti-American PR campaign with the North Vietnamese giving aid and comfort? And four months later, the bombing stopped of the dikes. Why has no one been hanged for high treason? I mean, he realized that . If I was used, I allowed it to happen. President Lyndon Johnson, Democrat, in a special address to the American public, reported an attack upon a U.S. naval vessel in the Tonkin Gulf by a North Vietnamese torpedo boat. Here's the record, number one: you've got the photo on the anti-aircraft gun that you add on during the transition. Nobody remembers, nobody cares. America. The Ms. , we thought, would signal a bit of ironic distance from the broad, ingenu- ous affection contained in Miss America. Good question here Richard: "My question is, when will people like Fonda and Kerry (unlike Joan Baez) take responsibility for what they have wrought -- the totalitarian system that gave us re-education camps and the boat people?" Once U.S. forces were committed in large numbers the U.S. federal government, as in Korea, prohibited them from attacking specified enemy sanctuaries (staging areas) into which the communists retreated, regrouped, re-armed and launched renewed attacks. He collects a group of American POWs from their septic dungeons, cleans them up, and has them mustered on parade to show his guest how well his embattled nation treats its prisoners. 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The media heaped calumny on U.S. military leadership; presented biased, horrifying scenes depicting "the wanton killing of Vietnamese civilians", and the "degeneracy" of our fighting men and women. We have no right to bomb military targets in Vietnam. Free subscription>>, Please consider a donation to help us keep this American treasure alive. . After we published Peter Braunsteins article on Jane Fonda in our July/August issue, perhaps 60 people sent me this story. but not for the rest of it. False. JANE FONDA: It was a terrible mistake. These men were bombing and strafing and napalming the country, she said. Her lawsuit started it all: Former Fox host Gretchen Carlson claims Ailes repeatedly sexually harassed her. Considering the admonition about Caesar's wife, perhaps HNN should remove you as an intern. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. I think so, and I would hope that all Americans will at least speak their minds at the movie box office and refuse to further enrich one of the greatest American traitors. Im not you know, they all went to jail. 5:15 After numerous apologies over four decades, its time to let Hanoi Jane Fonda off the hook for Vietnam. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 1991) Pages 225-229. The Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution calling for her to be prosecuted as a traitor. Again the secret policy of the financiers was: "containment of communism" while disallowing an American victory. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Joe? CHRIS WALLACE: Your most famous protest was 50 years ago when you went to North Vietnam at the height of the war there. CHRIS WALLACE: When you got that nickname Hanoi Jane, how did you feel at the time? Her visit actually took place in 1972. By July 1972, when Fonda accepted an invitation to visit North Vietnam, America had been at war overseas and with itself for years. These men were bombing and strafing and napalming the country, she said, according to an Associated Press report in April 1973, which quoted an interview she gave to KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. North Vietnam, 1972,: Jane Fonda is in the midst of her visit when an N.V.A. I want you to go home and say, "I'm sorry I got caught doing the wrong thing.". So I ask, should she have been put on trial for treason? She went to Hanoi that year to tour villages, cities and infrastructure. A series of photos of her sitting at an NVA anti-aircraft battery earned her the nickname Hanoi Jane and the undying spite of Vietnam veterans everywhere. There were also rumors she turned over secret messages from POWs to their captors. Fonda may have regrets about those photos in particular, but shes never regretted her political activism. And its about a woman who had a capacity for reinvention that, like Jay Gatsbys, was the more effective for her whole-souled belief in what she devised. Bates. Mr. Nolan wrote something that helped me better understand the fury of this sort of reaction. CHRIS WALLACE: Your most famous protest was 50 years ago when you went to North Vietnam at the height of the war there. Again and again against incredible odds, and at great cost in American casualties, U.S. forces stopped the enemy; but were prevented by President Truman from administering the coup de grace. Now, I leave it NORTH: Well, yes, as a matter of fact I think she is. Many of our veterans still call her Hanoi Jane thanks to her radio broadcasts: True, but she doesnt just have the nickname because of the radio broadcasts. Just another old women of no consequence, don't give her any credit for ending the war, people like John Kerry and Max Cleland don't even think it's over yet. He was denied his request to gather intelligence by aerial reconnaissance over China. Halyburton told him that the POW's had tried to debunk them even though they regarded Fonda as an unsympathetic figure. Alisyn Camerota hosted a number of Fox News programs during a 16-year run that ended in 2014. Id been getting pretty sour about the incensed patriots who would curse me and my family and confidently speak on behalf of all veterans living and dead, and the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress, to declare I was a disgrace to America for running that storythen conclude by smugly assuring me they would never read it. Thats all the ground troops were going home. I have had my say. I know what its supposed to be now. Nobody remembers, nobody cares. And its about a woman who had a capacity for reinvention that, like Jay Gatsbys, was the more effective for her whole-souled belief in what she devised. As anyone who knew or worked with me in those years knows my heart has always been with the soldiers. For a great many people, its not enough that Jane Fonda went to North Vietnam, offered encouragement to an army that was daily killing her countrymen, climbed up on that anti-aircraft gun, insisted that all American prisoners were well treated, and so on. Which goes to reinforce the old adage that no one is truly a waste of skin. Jane Fonda tested the limits of patriotic dissent. Some lawmakers calledher actions treason. However, it was a bit too long, and Dr. Shenkman needed it shortened in the interest of time. That begs the question, responsible for what? To license content, please contact licenses [at] americanheritage.com. She now hosts "New Day" on CNN. I will never know. All rights reserved. Market data provided by Factset. No article of ours gets hundreds of letters, but this one did, very few of them friendly. Her book just may not make the bestseller Sheturned down a four-year, $100 million offer to stay with Fox News saying that one of the reasonsfor her departure was to spend more time with her kids. I get up, and as I start to walk back to the car with the translator, the implication of what has just happened hits me. CHRIS WALLACE: So when you say it was a terrible mistake. There's nothing like a historian 'cherry-picking' his citations or only presenting a partial 'truth' from his source. Hardly misdirected anger, Jane Fonda really was merely a silly and shallow child of privilege who allowed herself to be used for propaganda. I got the main point across. She also spoke about her infamous protests. Outside of herself, she was manipulated by the experts in the Communist government who are masters in the art of propaganda. Otherwise, she wouldn't touch a weapon if she was genuinely anti-war. The reason Jane Fonda went to Vietnam was not wrong as Mr. Sollinger put it but the way she behaved while in Vietnam was unappropriate. Nevertheless, there are Vietnam veterans out there who served in the war zone before 1969 who are convinced that Jane Fonda was in cahoots with the Commies during their own tours. I suppose that since I am never really planned to be an Intern next semester (not in a full time sense, save as a researcher), and since my term is essentially over, I can join the conversation as Joe Public. She called our POWs hypocrites and liars and referred to their torture as understandable. Greta Van Susteren -- who had been one of Ailes' most stalwart defenders -- left in early September 2016 after saying that Fox had "not felt like a home" for years. and how good she feels in her 70s. And I was I was like a limp noodle what I had experienced and what I had seen, I just I wasnt able to resist, they said were gonna take you out here today. But the action that still enrages veterans most was that photograph of her with North Vietnamese troops onan antiaircraft gunthat would have been used to shoot down American planes. Manywere there to protest the Vietnam War. They have never acknowledged their role in the killing fields of Cambodia and fail to discuss the fact that Vietnam, one of about four communist countries left on the face of this earth, is currently at the bottom rung of third world nations in terms of per capita income. Troop B, 2nd squadron, 17th Cavalry, RVN, 1969-70 officer gets an idea. The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon. Its folklore, but folklore of a curiously evolved sort. Please try again later. In July 1972, during the waning days of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, actress Jane Fonda incurred the enmity of untold thousands of Vietnam veterans and their families (as well as service members for generations to come) when she arrived in Hanoi, North Vietnam, and began a two-week tour of the country. War materiel, shipped via the Aristide was an ENEMY of Communism, hence his downfall. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. She apologized for being on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site. Jane Fonda remains unforgiven. She said: I have very few regrets. The POWs are beaten. However, the fact that she advocated Communism does not give anyone license to make up stories or slander. Truman warned Chiang to integrate communists into China's nationalist government or American aid would be withdrawn. quote: [3] And she referred to the POW's as hypocrites and liars.[4]. [2] Peter Collier, The Fondas; A Hollywood Dynasty. Jane didnt make her infamous and idiotic trip to Hanoi until 1972. True. Or to keep it anonymous, click here. Legal Statement. And, as she does, each POW palms her a scrap of paper with his Social Security number written on it. Hows this for a story? NORTH (on camera): What did the guys in your squad say about this? Jane Fonda came clean in an interview with Chris Wallace about her Hanoi Jane days and her failure as a mother. COLMES: She did say that she was sorry. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. On the basis of those meetings alone, she proclaimed that American POW's weren't being mistreated, and that any who said they were mistreated werte either liars, or were simply experiencing punishment for their racist treatment and attitude towards their Vietnamese captors. Communism is an atheistic system, and even advocating it is a serious offense in my eyes (with or without war crimes participation). Watch "Hannity & Colmes" weeknights at 9 p.m. Only the bankers know. She has said that she regrets doing this. Liberals in America's streets "protested" our victories and exulted in our defeats - thus, in patriots' eyes, giving the war a raison d'etre. Nixon has responsibility for everything he did or didn't do on his watch. But when you know why you did something, and youre willing to admit the mistakes that you made, but stand up for the things that you did that that mattered? Urban Legends story then identifies the POW and gives some quotes about his treatment by the NVA. tips@mediaite.com. And heres Cat Ballou, the beautiful daughter of Young Abe Lincoln, of Mister Roberts, beaming down from a machine designed to kill them. This article was published more than4 years ago. Especially considering that the Republican Party has obviously now been captured by the same forces (the 'Illuminati', hehehe). I mean, that's what you and I do with our wives when we say something that we shouldn't have said. An analogy: I'm more upset by somebody coming into my house and stealing from me than I am by a tax increase, or even by government malfeasance. www.DanandGEnterprises.com He collects a group of American POWs from their septic dungeons, cleans them up, and has them mustered on parade to show his guest how well his embattled nation treats its prisoners. 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I spent many years its when I made coming home talking to American soldiers, who had been in Vietnam and the things they told me were heartbreaking. In 2005, she apologized again on 60 If it wasn't I must be missing something. The cover called her Ms. FONDA: I'm charging the government with genocide, with genocide. That is not my place. Have a tip or story idea? Kellysaid she was among those at Fox News sexually harassed by Ailes. Thats all the ground troops were going home. Have a tip we should know? In fact, when the Tet Offensive broke, Jane Fonda was the featured pinup girl in that months issue of Leatherneck , the official publication of the Marines.. Del. Four die; one, Col. Larry Carrigan, survivesjust barely, but it is he who tells about the incident. Whether Fonda wanted to shame troops is subjective. She and actor Donald Sutherland started an anti-USO troupe to counter Bob Hopes famous shows for the troops. Support with a donation>>. wars the intention of which is not to win but to bleed) is quite plausible. It wasnt firing at the time, and Fonda said in 2011 she hardly even thought about where I was sitting and that itis possible that it was a set up, that the Vietnamese had it all planned.. Congress held hearings. I wanted to tell them what I was seeing as an American on the ground there. The buck stops here. Chiang refused to be extorted, citing his revulsion of the international banking cartel. Truman refused. I appealed to them to please consider what you are doing. Here it is. Shewas arrested before she got the chance, just as she had been at Fort Lewis, Wash., Fort Hood, Tex., and Fort Bragg, N.C. Fonda told The Post shed made talking to GIs herfull-time job. Its more than being a traitor; millions of Americans felt treasonous during that war. Nevertheless, there are Vietnam veterans out there who served in the war zone before 1969 who are convinced that Jane Fonda was in cahoots with the Commies during their own tours. During the photo sessions during her visit to Vietnam, she strongly believed were setups and a grave mistake on her part. The Army builds a tolerance for violence, she shouted at the crowd. I mean Alan, this woman was totally caught up in the age of the '60s, the rhetoric of the '60s, and quite frankly I feel sorry for her, because she's not out of it. MacArthur soon realized he was expected to win battles but lose the war. Email us. Fondas wide-ranging response went from apologetic to defiant and everywhere in between: CHRIS WALLACE: Your most famous protest was 50 years ago when you went to North Vietnam at the height of the war there. Outspoken host Elisabeth Hasselbeck left "The View" to join "Fox & Friends" in 2013, which she exited at the end of 2015. A new HBO documentary on Fondas life, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, explores the fallout for the actress, who is now 80. Yet, despite treason in high places American troops - outnumbered ten-to-one - were winning the war. The U.S. government secretly abets communism around the globe, then sends in the American military to "contain the communist menace". And the question I have is 50 years later, how do you look back on that particular chapter? . She claimed she was sexually harassed by correspondent Brian Wilson and later spoke out against Fox News' culture after the Ailes scandal broke. _taboola.push({ She posed on an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down our American pilots. Fonda hasapologized for the liars and hypocrites statement, which she said she made out of anger that the Nixon Administration was lying about the extent of the POW torture for propaganda purposes. All were hired by Roger Ailes, the former network boss who exited in August 2016 amid a sexual harassment scandal. re: Jane Fonda visiting BR this weekend Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:43 am to Chipand2Putts. [1] According to a recent email that circulated to various Vietnam veterans, Fonda reportedly beat one POW, and betrayed the confidence of another, resulting in his death. Look it, there were clandestine operations conducted in every war. William Burkhead, a Democrat from Anne Arundel, said, I wouldnt want to kill her, but I wouldnt mind if you cut her tongue off, according to a Post story. So I feel that well If I did was good, except that I shouldnt have set gone out to a military place. But also admits to consulting with psychics. Her rebellion against the foreign policies of the United States suggested to many outraged Americans that treason might have an All-American face, a familiar accent, and be closer to home than the Other that had previously been assumed to embody the enemy. That's an apology. quote: Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Fonda wasnt deterred. All of the facts, in retrospect, lead to the conclusion that the U.S. government's purpose in dragging America into Korea was not to defeat communism but to kill as many Americans as possible in an ignoble defeat, get rid of the hero MacArthur as a possible presidential nominee, and lure a disillusioned America into acceptance of one world government. HANNITY: All right. And therein lies the difference. And, as she does, each POW palms her a scrap of paper with his Social Security number written on it. Peter Braunsteins article speculated that Jane Fonda had this ability to a degree unique in modern times. container: 'taboola-right-rail-thumbnails', Legal Statement. "Because of this," the narrative continues, "I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a piece of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane every time my arms dipped." . "Hanoi Run" from USSR to Viet Nam, was produced in Russian plants that had been built by American companies and financed by the Federal Reserve System. "CHINA: Following WWII, Mao Tse-Tung, financed by the international banks, led his Chinese communists in an armed conflict against nationalist China under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, America's ally against Japan. ET! How unfair! In fact, when the Tet Offensive broke, Jane Fonda was the featured pinup girl in that months issue of Leatherneck , the official publication of the Marines. Jane Fonda came clean in an interview with Chris Wallace about her Hanoi Jane days and her failure as a mother. 's and eMediaMillWorks, Inc.'s copyrights or other proprietary rights or interests in the material. I believe Jane Fonda has talked to at least two historians. I mean, the reality is, there were 24,000 American troops on the ground in South Vietnam. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. When Jane Fonda Rocked the U.S. Army A newly exhumed documentary delves into the actresss anti-Vietnam vaudeville tour of American military bases in 1972. Also Read: 'Jane Fonda in Five Acts' Film Review: Doc Explores the Many Lives of the Actress-Activist, She posed on an antiaircraft gun used to shoot down our American pilots. True, by Fondas admission. I stand by the article as it was written. JANE FONDA: it was a mistake to go, I never wanted to go to any military installations. Sadly, the Founders also mixed a great deal of Greco-Roman Humanism with this heritage, allowing room for much of what you decry. By July 1972, when Fonda accepted an invitation to visit North Vietnam, America had been at war overseas and with itself for years. When Rockefeller said what he said about the Cultural Revolution (in an Op Ed that I read long ago, attesting to its existence), he was addressing the Communist system as a Fascist system with potential for realizing corporate/banker control much more than as a "Marxist" system. She was dubbed "Hanoi Jane" after traveling to the Communist capital. It meant re-taking the same bloody ground over and over again. The reality of it is an apology is saying, "I am sorry, I really do apologize for what I did over there, and I'm asking for your forgiveness." Thousands more were on the way, including Ernie Wallace (ph) and Ed Grummett. ( New York: G.P. "War Stories," Colonel, we'll be watching this Sunday, 8 p.m. as usual. Fonda was accused of engaging in war crimes on behalf of the North Vietnamese. What followed was a long-lasting wave of criticism and international outrage that earned Fonda the nickname " Daughter of legendary Henry Fonda, actress, and activist was one of the most outspoken people against the Vietnam War at the age of 34. Jane Fonda came clean in an interview with Chris Wallace about her Hanoi Jane days and her failure as a mother. Dave They realized that the war was wrong, that we werent wanted there. I never asked pilots to desert. Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images "It was a very tumultuous and polarized time," she said in the HBO documentary. Ive never really wanted to settle.. At the time, Hanoi Jane was serenaded with a Communist folk song and was led to a weapon that had shot down many American aircraft, and photos were immediately taken. I remember one retired lieutenant colonel describing a conversation he had with an angry trooper about the treasonous behavior of Jane Fonda in the midst of the 1968 Tet Offensive. Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time. Whereupon Truman dismissed MacArthur for insubordination. Why are people more angry at Jane Fonda that they are against, say, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the people really responsible? [5] One man who was supposed to have encountered Jane Fonda, one Colonel Larry Carrigan, has denied any claim that he ever met her. Jane Fonda was more than just an actress born to a wealthy and prominent Hollywood family. It is always distressing to find American citizens who benefit from the protection and assistance of this government lending their voice in any way to governments such as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam distressing indeed, said State Department spokesman Charles W. Bray, according to a July 1972 Reuters story. It is nothing more and nothing less than the full culmination of Greco-Roman Humanism as it has defined itself throughout the thousands of years. Those words were written by Michael Benge, a civilian advisor captured by the Viet Cong in 1968 and held as a POW for 5 years.
