1990) Pages 121-123. She said It is possible it was a setup, I will never know. "War Stories," Colonel, we'll be watching this Sunday, 8 p.m. as usual. 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. The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon. 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. JANE FONDA: it was a mistake to go, I never wanted to go to any military installations. I am assured it will be taken care of. North Vietnam, 1972,: Jane Fonda is in the midst of her visit when an N.V.A. In 1972, Fonda toured North Vietnam, where she spoke against U.S. military policy in the country. 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." The "New World Order" of the capitalists and the communists is not "Jewish", sir. 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. SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Jane Fonda says she is sorry for some of her actions during the Vietnam War. 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? 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. 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. GRUMMETT: Don't worry about it, you know? 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." 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. Ms. Fonda's actions, however, directly affected helpless individual captives and their families. One presumably claimed to have been struck by her, while another claimed to have had his confidence betrayed to his Communist captors. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How are you, G.I. [5]http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp; http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa110399b.htm; http://www.truthminers.com/truth/hanoi_jane.htm; cited on November 24, 2004. re: Jane Fonda visiting BR this weekend Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:43 am to Chipand2Putts. Many Americans traveled to In another she was looking into the Johnson then ordered 165,000 U.S. forces under General Westmoreland to support a handful of American "advisors" previously ordered there by former President John F. Kennedy, Democrat. Transcription Copyright 2005 eMediaMillWorks, Inc. (f/k/a Federal Document Clearing House, Inc.), which takes sole responsibility for the accuracy of the transcription. No license is granted to the user of this material except for the user's personal or internal use and, in such case, only one copy may be printed, nor shall user use any material for commercial purposes or in any fashion that may infringe upon Fox News Network, L.L.C. I mean, the reality is, there were 24,000 American troops on the ground in South Vietnam. War materiel, shipped via the Heres a transcript of her remarks so you can judge for yourself. Sending Out Veterans' Benefits, The Executive Branchs Response to the Flood of 1927, The Case For Calling the Language "American", America Fought Its Own Battle Over Books Before it Fought the Nazis. 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. I should have been clearer that my anger back then was at the Nixon Administration. 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. Its something very like the worst sort of lovers betrayal, the deep wound that time itself often is powerless to heal. Please, you cant let them be published. Its more than being a traitor; millions of Americans felt treasonous during that war. Liberals in America's streets "protested" our victories and exulted in our defeats - thus, in patriots' eyes, giving the war a raison d'etre. Her visit actually took place in 1972. A young photographer took this harrowing image of the Vietnam War. They knew we were coming. The alleged mission was to prevent communism from spreading to South Korea, a peninsula pointed at now disarmed Japan. To begin with, the title is deliberately misleading: his real point has nothing to do with Jane Fonda. It all has nothing to do with where I am sitting. Halyburton told him that the POW's had tried to debunk them even though they regarded Fonda as an unsympathetic figure. Daughter of legendary Henry Fonda, actress, and activist was one of the most outspoken people against the Vietnam War at the age of 34. According to the email she visited Hanoi in 1968. I am trying to show up now.. MacArthur publicly insisted upon victory, infuriating the international banks. Youre gonna come through it, okay. I did not know then. Why? 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. Kiran Chetry was a Fox News host from 2001 to 2007. Heres how we saw the article we ran: It is a survey of the singular career of a woman who both drove and was driven by many of the largest social concerns of her era, and who came to embody some of them. 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. 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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The U.S. government secretly abets communism around the globe, then sends in the American military to "contain the communist menace". I'm sorry I hurt you, Alan, and I hope you can forgive me." COLMES: She did say that she was sorry. Imagine its the Battle of the Bulge and Betty Grable is up on top of a German tank saying the Yanks are fighting an evil war. Its not a preposterous analogynot as far as the soldiers involved are concerned. This thread gives me a great chance to ask veterans a question that has always bothered me. [5] One man who was supposed to have encountered Jane Fonda, one Colonel Larry Carrigan, has denied any claim that he ever met her. 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. But he never met Jane Fonda, and he has no idea how the maddening tale attached itself to him. Why has no one been hanged for high treason? It wasnt firing at the time, and Fonda said in 2011 she hardly even thought about where I was sitting and that it is possible that it was a set up, that the Vietnamese . www.DanandGEnterprises.com CHRIS WALLACE: Your most famous protest was 50 years ago when you went to North Vietnam at the height of the war there. 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So setting aside the issue of whether plastic surgery has anything to do with Vietnam, is Kelly right about Fondas record? 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. So I feel that well If I did was good, except that I shouldnt have set gone out to a military place. And, you know, I think they thought, Oh, shes this white privilege rich, famous daughter of all of that stuff. After all, she is an American; surely shell carry the message home to the families that their husband or son is alive. But she maintains she was not a traitor by speaking out against the war or trying to turn soldiers against it, because she still believesthe U.S. government was lying to them. But Jane Fonda remains unforgiven. 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. or redistributed. ET!. Her book just may not make the bestseller But she was advised by other activists to focus her political energies, deciding to go all-in as an impassioned voice for the antiwar movement. 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. Thus, Europe, Russia, China, Korea, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, the Middle East were turned into killing grounds, and their existing governments destroyed. Which goes to reinforce the old adage that no one is truly a waste of skin. [1] Cited on November 24, 2004. Heres her explanation, from 2011: I had decided to do the broadcasts because I was so horrified by the bombing of civilian targets and I wanted to speak to U.S. pilots as I had done on so many occasions during my visits to U.S. military bases and at G.I. Fox News has enhanced the careers of numerous women who have served as hosts. Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images "It was a very tumultuous and polarized time," she said in the HBO documentary. However, the fact that she advocated Communism does not give anyone license to make up stories or slander. container: 'taboola-right-rail-thumbnails', On campus, she was pushing her movement to turn U.S. soldiers into pacifists. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. The POWs are beaten. NORTH: Well, all I did was present the facts. 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 mean again, I'm not trying to be pedantic about it, but an apology is, "I'm sorry for what I said. Four die; one, Col. Larry Carrigan, survivesjust barely, but it is he who tells about the incident. She called the POW's liars. [2] While criticizing America, she made laudatory comments about the Soviet Union. (Later, after 58,152 American dead were just names on a wall, declassified US Navy logs revealed there had been no torpedo attack!). This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, It meant re-taking the same bloody ground over and over again. True. I sang a song. Almost all the messages said we had no business writing about Fonda because she was a traitor. We once published an admiring profile of Benedict Arnoldwhose actions did the nation real damage in a way Fondas fulminations never couldand nobody made a peep. As anyone who knew or worked with me in those years knows my heart has always been with the soldiers. Jane Fonda is a star of stage and screen whose career began in 1960. Finally the brainwashed, confused, exhausted American public forced our government to surrender. During the photo sessions during her visit to Vietnam, she strongly believed were setups and a grave mistake on her part. She said that she regretted it. The Bushes have a long-standing relationship with Red China, one that has hardmed our national security, yet few attack them as vociferously as Fonda was attacked. 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? Fonda was lambasted for her trip to North Vietnam in 1972 during the Vietnam War. 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. It is giving them the advantage of the propaganda visibility that this woman lent to them. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. It's not just handing out, you know, blankets. The war was being fought by the air during during the Nixon administration. The journey of Jane Fonda: Ive always been curious. Jane Fonda sparked outrage among war veterans when she was pictured sitting on an anti-aircraft gun in 1972 during the Vietnam War, earning her the nickname Hanoi Jane. We now see a pattern of sedition/treason. Communism is an atheistic system, and even advocating it is a serious offense in my eyes (with or without war crimes participation). Rumors spread and still persist that she betrayed them by accepting secret notes and then turning them over to the North Vietnamese. [3] She praised the USSR for their support of the Viet Cong. [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. 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. Legal Statement. One of the times it did, Im happy to say, was with Keith Nolan, the author of several books on the war, most recently Ripcord , a superb account of the 101st Airborne in the conflicts last great battle. This, probably more than anything, earned her the nickname Hanoi Jane.. Here's what she's got. We have no right to bomb military targets in Vietnam. NORTH: Irrefutable for the three things she did, and I defined for you the rule, the actual constitutional language defining treason. She now works at Reuters. I find that intolerable.. Shewas active in the Black Panthers and marched for the rights of American Indians, soldiers and working mothers. All were hired by Roger Ailes, the former network boss who exited in August 2016 amid a sexual harassment scandal. Thats all the ground troops were Now, I leave it NORTH: Well, yes, as a matter of fact I think she is. Radio broadcasts, which attempted to shame American troops: Fonda did record messages that the North Vietnamese played for Americans to weaken their resolve. If I was Vietnamese, I probably would have tried to do the same thing, you know, but I should not have gone. On a hot, stickyMay afternoon in 1970,a crowd of several thousand students and protesterstook over the University of Maryland mall.