Manywere there to protest the Vietnam War. 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. There's nothing like a historian 'cherry-picking' his citations or only presenting a partial 'truth' from his source. Heres a transcript of her remarks so you can judge for yourself. Alisyn Camerota hosted a number of Fox News programs during a 16-year run that ended in 2014. 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. In 1972, Fonda toured North Vietnam, where she spoke against U.S. military policy in the country. Whether Fonda wanted to shame troops is subjective. She called our POWs hypocrites and liars and referred to their torture as understandable. America. The Ms. , we thought, would signal a bit of ironic distance from the broad, ingenu- ous affection contained in Miss America., It evidently didnt. The cover called her Ms. The POWs are beaten. 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. Yeah, said my stepdaughter, Jill, when I told her about this. If it wasn't I must be missing something. I have had my say. 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. And I don't NORTH: Well, that's not going to happen. Perhaps most dramatically, in March 1973, the Maryland state legislature held a hearing to have Fonda and her films barred from the state. 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. The story surfaced on the Internet in 1999, and my guess is that it will live there a long time. And four months later, the bombing stopped of the dikes. Fonda was lambasted for her trip to North Vietnam in 1972 during the Vietnam War. 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. I hardly even think about where I am sitting. I think that this is rather odd. 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. Fonda may have regrets about those photos in particular, but shes never regretted her political activism. According to the email she visited Hanoi in 1968. Truman warned Chiang to integrate communists into China's nationalist government or American aid would be withdrawn. [3] She praised the USSR for their support of the Viet Cong. This thread gives me a great chance to ask veterans a question that has always bothered me. I mean, he realized that . quote: Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. 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." Rumors spread and still persist that she betrayed them by accepting secret notes and then turning them over to the North Vietnamese. Kelly responded with a cannon by bringing up the time Fonda posed on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Its something very like the worst sort of lovers betrayal, the deep wound that time itself often is powerless to heal. HANNITY: Is Jane Fonda really sorry or just trying to sell her brand new book? For 70 years, American Heritage has been the leading magazine of U.S. history, politics, and culture. Megyn Kelly lit into Jane Fonda on Monday, highlighting the behavior that earned the actress the nickname Hanoi Jane while defending the time last fall when she questioned Fonda about plastic surgery. 1991) Pages 225-229. Mr. Nolan wrote something that helped me better understand the fury of this sort of reaction. However, when my credibility is challenged, I will respond. "STRATAGEMS of DEFEAT AND NO-WIN WARS (Later, after 58,152 American dead were just names on a wall, declassified US Navy logs revealed there had been no torpedo attack!). More than 58,000 Americans died in the war.. Kelly was defending herself after Fonda said over the weekend that the question was so inappropriate and that Kelly is not that good an interviewer.. And I didnt even think and they sang me a song and Im made me laugh. Megyn Kelly ended her 12-year run with Fox News in early 2017 in exchange for a weekday show at NBC. 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. MacArthur asked Truman to permit Chiang Kai-Shek's troops to fight with Americans against the Red Chinese. 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). Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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 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. She now hosts "New Day" on CNN. The answer, of course, is that they won't. Thats all the ground troops were going home. re: Jane Fonda visiting BR this weekend Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:43 am to Chipand2Putts. So setting aside the issue of whether plastic surgery has anything to do with Vietnam, is Kelly right about Fondas record? As Jane Fonda promotes her new film, "Monster-in-Law", its up to all of us to let our children know about the specific activities she undertook during the Vietnam War. Fonda told the audience that their protests saddened her. Jane Fonda came clean in an interview with Chris Wallace about her Hanoi Jane days and her failure as a mother. The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon. 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? Why? 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. Daughter of legendary Henry Fonda, actress, and activist was one of the most outspoken people against the Vietnam War at the age of 34. In July of 1972, she made two trips to Hanoi which earned her the nickname Hanoi Jane. And I refused to have them scare me away from being actively against the Vietnam War. After Fonda returned from hertrip, the State Department spoke out against her. They landed two months later on 7 May with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. 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 the more they tried, the more I. JANE FONDA: I know what Im doing. Oh, my God. What followed was a long-lasting wave of criticism and international outrage that earned Fonda the nickname " And you know, maybe I was set up but I was an adult, its Im gonna take responsibility for it. Forget? This, probably more than anything, earned her the nickname Hanoi Jane.. I mean, it depends on what you want to know. I think that there is a lot of selectivity going on. She continued openly to question the accounts of the U.S. government and American POWs, who told devastating stories of the torture they endured at the hands of the North Vietnamese. 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. Look it, there were clandestine operations conducted in every war. _taboola.push({ It was to these traditional Americans, alienated by the Sixties, that the email was targeted, playing on their hopes that finally, at long last, Jane Fonda would have to answer for her choices. However, the fact that she advocated Communism does not give anyone license to make up stories or slander. She now works at Reuters. This is not a legal transcript for purposes of litigation. No article of ours gets hundreds of letters, but this one did, very few of them friendly. The Nixon Justice Department poured over the transcripts of my broadcasts trying to find a way to put me on trial for treason but they could find none. . 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. This is a partial transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," April 6, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Tom Cotton Gets Revenge On Liberal Media: Acting like lawyers for Chinese communists, Joy Behar Shocks World, Defends Marjorie Taylor Greene On The View, Kellyanne Conway and George Conway To Divorce After 22 Years of Marriage: Report, He started crying like a baby that lost his pacifier: Florida Sheriff On Tough Guy Rapper Arrested For Murder, White House Doctor Drops Friday Bombshell: Joe Biden Has Cancerous Tissue Removed, Ted Cruz Calls For Anthony Fauci To Be Prosecuted And Jailed For Lying To Congress, Robert F. Kennedy Jr Puts Biden On Notice, Says Hes Thinking About Running Against Joe In Dem Primary. So did Joan Baez and William Sloane Coffin, Noam Chomsky and Pete Seeger, Rennie Davis and Judy Collins. re: Jane Fonda visiting BR this weekend Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:43 am to Chipand2Putts. I mean, he realized that. And you were photographed sitting on an anti aircraft gun. 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. 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. Her suit was later settled for a reported $20 million. LBJ and Congress share responsibility for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, with its dubious basis, and everything that followed.