Radio broadcasts, which attempted to shame American troops: Fonda did record messages that the North Vietnamese played for Americans to weaken their resolve. And number three: you've got the propaganda broadcasts themselves, where she substitutes for Hanoi Hannah, who broadcasts to the American troops all the time. Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images "It was a very tumultuous and polarized time," she said in the HBO documentary. And, you know, I think they thought, Oh, shes this white privilege rich, famous daughter of all of that stuff. Politicians make mistakes that affect the body politic and statesmen sometimes direct a foreign policy that disregards individuals in the national interest. Nobody remembers, nobody cares. COLMES: She did say that she was sorry. Her book just may not make the bestseller Each of them suggested that they had done at least one interview with Fonda, and individually they were looking into the historical accuracy behind the claims made about Fonda and why she became such a lighting rod for controversy. 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By July 1972, when Fonda accepted an invitation to visit North Vietnam, America had been at war overseas and with itself for years. And exocide (ph) and biocide. The Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution calling for her to be prosecuted as a traitor. A Vietnam War photographer captured the bloody Tet offensive. Status: TRUE" In her book, she says she's a Christian. Watch above via HBO Max and CNNs Whos Talking to Chris Wallace. She has to be a murderess too. However, since the majority of the stories cited in the e-mail have no proof behind them, I had to either give the e-mail "thumbs down" or "thumbs up" on the basis of the overall validity. 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? I have great, great children, talented, smart, and I just didnt know how to do it. And I refused to have them scare me away from being actively against the Vietnam War. 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Hundreds of Americans had gone to North Vietnam, journalists diplomats, our Secretary of State Ramsey Clark, Vietnam veterans, but I said but a movie star hasnt gone and maybe if I go it will draw more attention, and thats what it did. We're going to take them out. Daughter of legendary Henry Fonda, actress, and activist was one of the most outspoken people against the Vietnam War at the age of 34. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. WebJane Fonda & TheVietnam War. But the reality of it is, Alan, this is a woman,who I quite frankly feel sorry for. I mean, the reality is, there were 24,000 American troops on the ground in South Vietnam. To begin with, the title is deliberately misleading: his real point has nothing to do with Jane Fonda. but not for the rest of it. False. During her two-week stay, Fonda concluded that America Email us. Fonda shakes the last hand, then turns to the officer and gives him the fistful of messages. And the more they tried, the more I. JANE FONDA: I know what Im doing. COLMES: Many of us forgive many of us forgive George W. Bush (search) for being young and irresponsible, and maybe we can also forgive Jane Fonda. Coffee houses. Jane Fonda came clean in an interview with Chris Wallace about her Hanoi Jane days and her failure as a mother. As Pioneer Rap Trio Suffers Tragic Loss, Long-Awaited Back Catalog is Finally Released, Bret Baiers Interview With FBI Director Shows What A Joke It Is to Pose Him As Foxs Real Journalism Successor to Chris Wallace, Jimmy Kimmel Calls Tucker Carlson Putins Favorite Little Nesting Doll After He Accused Kimmel of Using Foreign Gov. Colonel, Michelle Malkin (search) actually discovered other quotes that she had said. Have a tip or story idea? And I don't NORTH: Well, that's not going to happen. 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. All Rights Reserved, Copyright MAGA Conservatives. His alliance with the Reds made sense, since both upheld elite control of the world. I dont think they know, Fonda said in a news conference when she returned home. Im not you know, they all went to jail. They hadnt been able to vote on the virtues of the conflict, and they found themselves in mortal peril in the midst of an ugly, painful ordeal that a lot of vocal people back home thought was a criminal enterprise. Then Dr. Spock attacked the Vietnam draft. 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. AND This is not a legal transcript for purposes of litigation. Free shipping for many products! Hanoi Jane told 60 Minutes that photos snapped while she sat on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal and the largest lapse of judgment I can imagine. Though she did say, meeting the locals, other artists, and intellectuals were well worth it. 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. It has simply been repeated over and over again, without proof, and duplicated on a number of websites. If they did, can I really blame them? She posed on an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down our American pilots. Fonda said that whileshe may have been tricked into taking the picture, The buck stops here. I never asked pilots to desert. Among the products sold expressing veterans' disdain for Fonda are a variety of bumper stickers, envelope stickers, sew-on patches, but evidently D&G no longer carries my favorite Fonda item, a urinal pad depicting Jane Fonda's photograph. "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. Did we lie about the body that we planted on Omaha Beach (search), trying to convince the Germans that we were going to land somewhere else? Please support this 72-year tradition of trusted historical writing and the volunteers that sustain it with a donation to American Heritage. Now, I leave it NORTH: Well, yes, as a matter of fact I think she is. . . 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. ( New York: G.P. Maybe. Nixon has responsibility for everything he did or didn't do on his watch. Us veterans will never forget or forgive her posing on a North Viet anti-aircraft gun, regardless whatever else she may or may not have done. 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. But now, very quickly, treason is the only crime defined in our Constitution. But Jane Fonda: Cancel my subscription!, In replying, I discovered that the Good Book notwithstanding, a soft answer turneth away wrath no more than zo percent of the time. But it wasnt untilshe traveled to Hanoi in July 1972 that she really enraged criticsand fundamentally altered how the world viewed her for decades to come. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 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? Also Read: Megyn Kelly Trashed by Rosie O'Donnell as 'Spineless Wanna Be Barbie' for Jane Fonda Spat. One presumably claimed to have been struck by her, while another claimed to have had his confidence betrayed to his Communist captors. Do any right-wingers ever decry the fact that Bush and the conservatives overthrew Aristide because he was a socialists----then invited the Chinese Communists in to our hemisphere? I believe Jane Fonda has talked to at least two historians. This is and now she's apologizing on a book tour. Talking Points, WATCH: Greg Gutfeld and Bill Maher Riff About Incest Porn Because They Are Hilarious Comedians And Hell Exists, Cocaine Bear, Hold My Beer: Production Company Behind Sharknado Releasing Meth Gator Movie This Summer. The cover called her Ms. Her suit was later settled for a reported $20 million. Legal Statement. 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). True. So did Joan Baez and William Sloane Coffin, Noam Chomsky and Pete Seeger, Rennie Davis and Judy Collins. And it was a terrible mistake because of the image that it showed, which was not at all what the reality was. Fonda was accused of engaging in war crimes on behalf of the North Vietnamese. Her visit actually took place in 1972. Im not you know, they all went to jail. 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. WebNevertheless, 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 I agree with TheWrap's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and provide my consent to receive marketing communications from them. After we published Peter Braunsteins article on Jane Fonda in our July/August issue, perhaps 60 people sent me this story. 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." MacArthur publicly insisted upon victory, infuriating the international banks. She has reportedly been shopping a tell-all book this year. The POWs who were there have denied that this ever occurred. HANNITY: Is Jane Fonda really sorry or just trying to sell her brand new book? Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. It is giving them the advantage of the propaganda visibility that this woman lent to them. I was not the kind of mother that I wished I had been to my children. We have no right to bomb military targets in Vietnam. 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. NORTH: The real story about Vietnam. Since the dawn of the Internet and a spate of anti-Fonda websites, there have been many fabrications and exaggerations regarding her actions, but her photo ops and press conferences to "give aid and comfort to the enemy" are not and never were in question. Kellysaid she was among those at Fox News sexually harassed by Ailes. In it, she apologizes once again for insulting the men and women who fought in Vietnam. Hardly misdirected anger, Jane Fonda really was merely a silly and shallow child of privilege who allowed herself to be used for propaganda. 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. Richard Morgan, www.DanandGEnterprises.com and how good she feels in her 70s. I think that this is rather odd. Its more than being a traitor; millions of Americans felt treasonous during that war. Pleasant Michigan, where Mary Hersberger (Capital University) and Jerry Kembcke (Holy Cross College) both gave papers on Fonda. Or to keep it anonymous, click here. I said that the POWs claiming torture were liars, hypocrites, and pawns. Screw you. They knew we were coming. Fonda addresses the media in December 1972 to protest U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. There's no denying that she defamed POWs by whitewashing the Viet Cong's treatment of them and later calling them liars when they spoke out." In 1972, the Academy Award-winning actress and activist traveled to North Vietnam and was photographed laughing and clapping along with Vietnamese soldiers. These men were bombing and strafing and napalming the country, she said. 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.. Many Americans disapproved of Fondas comments And the question I have is 50 years later, how do you look back on that particular chapter? 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. NORTH: Irrefutable for the three things she did, and I defined for you the rule, the actual constitutional language defining treason. Why? 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I don't want people putting words into my mouth, saying "you're going to tell us all these bankers and financiers are Jewish", for instance. JANE FONDA: it was a mistake to go, I never wanted to go to any military installations. 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. Fonda wasnt deterred. 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." However, the allegation that she abused American POWs is not true. It was the last day of my two week time there. North Vietnam, 1972,: Jane Fonda is in the midst of her visit when an N.V.A. quote: Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War. "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." Hows this for a story? [2] Peter Collier, The Fondas; A Hollywood Dynasty. I mean, that's what you and I do with our wives when we say something that we shouldn't have said. North Vietnamese press reported and Fonda later confirmed that she made several radio announcements over the Voice of Vietnam radio to implore U.S. pilots to stop the bombings. officer gets an idea. . Fonda has refused to tell her side of the story to historians investigating her role, purportedly because she was saving her story for her own memoirs, which are expected to be published soon. 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. Communism is an atheistic system, and even advocating it is a serious offense in my eyes (with or without war crimes participation). We now see a pattern of sedition/treason. If I was used, I allowed it to happen. So setting aside the issue of whether plastic surgery has anything to do with Vietnam, is Kelly right about Fondas record? Did our government lie to us during Vietnam? 5:15 After numerous apologies over four decades, its time to let Hanoi Jane Fonda off the hook for Vietnam. That is not my place. No, after the Left's "victory" in the United State's withdrawal from Southeast Asia, the matter of consequences was conveniently dropped from the discussion. 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. The Army builds a tolerance for violence, she shouted at the crowd. She has said that she regrets doing this. MacArthur soon realized he was expected to win battles but lose the war.