hoax to try and demonize her?
shareWith the way the MSM lied even back in the '60s and '70s who knows for sure what she said.
As I remember it from the top of my head, she praised the NVA and VC as freedom fighters and I did see the photo of her sitting at an NVA anti-aircraft gun near Hanoi. I can't remember her saying anything about the POWs, but you could probably look it up.
Her photo on the AA gun was interpreted by many as an encouragement for the NVA to shoot down American pilots.
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Grouch
She said she was set up, that although she sat at the AA gun she didn't realise what was happening, and had no intention of the photos being used for propaganda.
Opened my window to listen to the news But all I heard was the establishment blues!
So she didn't realize that the film crews, photographers, and reporters following her and other fellow travellers during her trip might actually report what she was saying and doing?
shareFonda never expressed anything but regret about the photos and the interpretation given them by the US media.
Why don't you start a rumour she actually used one of the guns to fire at a US aircraft.
Oops, somebody already has.
Opened my window to listen to the news But all I heard was the establishment blues!
Not until it started to cost her money many years after. She certainly did not at the time.
shareNot until it started to cost her money many years after.
A ludicrous claim. Not all of us make all our decisions based upon how much money it means.
She stated that the incident was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country that gave me privilege". Fonda said, "The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine." She later distinguished between regret over the use of her image as propaganda and pride for her anti-war activism: "There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs. Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda ... It's not something that I will apologize for." Fonda said she had no regrets about the broadcasts she made on Radio Hanoi, something she asked the North Vietnamese to do: "Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war.
Opened my window to listen to the news But all I heard was the establishment blues!
"The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine."
Which she said not just after returning from Hanoi but over fifteen years later while doing publicity for her Workout tape..