The Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution calling for her to be prosecuted as a traitor. Perhaps most dramatically, in March , the Maryland state legislature held a hearing to have Fonda and her films barred from the state.
She continued openly to question the accounts of the U. Over the years, as Fonda reinvented herself as a fitness maven and again a movie star, she apologized many times for the antiaircraft gun photo. But she maintains she was not a traitor by speaking out against the war or trying to turn soldiers against it, because she still believes the U. Still, for some veterans, no apology from Fonda will ever change their views of her as an adversary of America and the troops during wartime.
Skip to content Activism. Jane Fonda. The Lily News. From Hollywood starlet to liberal activist. She was active in the Black Panthers. She marched for the rights of American Indians, soldiers and working mothers. Jane Fonda arrives at John F. Trip to North Vietnam. During her two-week stay, Fonda concluded that America was unjustly bombing farmland and areas far flung from military targets. North Vietnamese press reported — and Fonda later confirmed — that she made several radio announcements over the Voice of Vietnam radio to implore U.
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You May Also Like. Fonda referred to a letter that Capt. It has been around since Nov or so. And, no, to the best of my knowledge, she never visited the Hanoi Hilton prison.
The conditions sucked and there was too much risk that one of us old-timers might have seen her and yelled out the truth, insulted her, or if we got close enough [deleted]. The Vietnamese wined her and dined her and fed her propaganda to their liking. Remember, the V were fighting a propaganda war. They would never let her see the deplorable conditions we were in. They probably took a chance to even bring seven men into a well-lit studio room you can bet it was cleaned and freshly painted, too.
I think they just gave her a royal tour of the best the city had to offer … history, culture, clean rooms, clean hospital rooms, etc. You can read a transcript here. At one point she states :. One has only to go into the countryside and listen to the peasants describe the lives they led before the revolution to understand why every bomb that is dropped only strengthens their determination to resist. That led her to educate herself about the war and turn against it.
I think probably some of these professional pilots were probably beaten to death by the people whose homes and families they were bombing and napalming. As Fonda tells it , she was arrested on baseless drug charges during a speaking tour because of pills that turned out to be vitamins.
Common, Jane Fonda and the Scene at the Respect Rally in Sundance Photos If you couldn't make the Sundance Film Festival this year -- or were too tied up at one of the several Women's Marches popping up around the country -- we've got you covered.
Check out the pictures from the "Respect Rally" in Park City, Utah, which included several actors and activists from Sundance. Jane Fonda told the crowd it's not just about rallying -- it's about organizing. Actor Nick Offerman took the stage -- saying men are now realizing they have "perfectly working ears.
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