thedrifter
08-04-02, 03:18 PM
http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietimages/virtual.htm
http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietimages/GIRLS.GIF
Featuring Joan Baez (far left) & her sisters
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1972: 'Hanoi' Jane
Jane Fonda -- actress, political activist and partner of anti-war protester Tom Hayden -- entered enemy territory for two weeks in November and emerged, in the eyes of many, as a traitor after posing for photographs at the seat of an anti-aircraft cannon and making radio broadcasts urging U.S. airmen to stop bombing North Vietnam. Fonda told servicemen stationed on aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin that the bombs they were loading into planes were illegal and that using the bombs "makes one a war criminal."
In 1988, Fonda went on ABC's "20-20" news program and apologized to Vietnam veterans and their families for her actions. "I was trying to help end the killing," Fonda said in an interview with Barbara Walters. "But there were times I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm ... very sorry that I hurt them." Asked about the continued bitterness over something that happened years ago -- critics still refer to her as "Hanoi" Jane -- Fonda said, "There are still festering wounds and a lot of pain, and for some I've become a lightning rod."
Fonda said she didn't realize at the time the effect posing with the anti-aircraft gun would have. "I know the power of images," she said in the 1988 interview. "To have put myself in a situation like that was a thoughtless and cruel thing to have done. ... I take full responsibility for it. I was not a kid, you know. The responsibility is mine
Sempers,
Roger
http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietimages/GIRLS.GIF
Featuring Joan Baez (far left) & her sisters
http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietimages/patch.JPG
http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietimages/fondaBW.gif
1972: 'Hanoi' Jane
Jane Fonda -- actress, political activist and partner of anti-war protester Tom Hayden -- entered enemy territory for two weeks in November and emerged, in the eyes of many, as a traitor after posing for photographs at the seat of an anti-aircraft cannon and making radio broadcasts urging U.S. airmen to stop bombing North Vietnam. Fonda told servicemen stationed on aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin that the bombs they were loading into planes were illegal and that using the bombs "makes one a war criminal."
In 1988, Fonda went on ABC's "20-20" news program and apologized to Vietnam veterans and their families for her actions. "I was trying to help end the killing," Fonda said in an interview with Barbara Walters. "But there were times I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm ... very sorry that I hurt them." Asked about the continued bitterness over something that happened years ago -- critics still refer to her as "Hanoi" Jane -- Fonda said, "There are still festering wounds and a lot of pain, and for some I've become a lightning rod."
Fonda said she didn't realize at the time the effect posing with the anti-aircraft gun would have. "I know the power of images," she said in the 1988 interview. "To have put myself in a situation like that was a thoughtless and cruel thing to have done. ... I take full responsibility for it. I was not a kid, you know. The responsibility is mine
Sempers,
Roger