Del. Lee said she still loves being a journalist and thatshehas"some really big ideas on how to better serve you in that particular arena" without Fox News. 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? 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 . Lets break down her remarks. 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. And, as she does, each POW palms her a scrap of paper with his Social Security number written on it. 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. To license content, please contact licenses [at] americanheritage.com. Thats all the ground troops were "There's no disputing that Jane Fonda toured North Vietnam, propagandized on behalf of the communists, and participated in an orchestrated "press conference" with American POWs in 1972. To begin with, the title is deliberately misleading: his real point has nothing to do with Jane Fonda. Deprived of American assistance, his army bereft of supplies, Chiang Kai-Shek retreated to the island sanctuary of Formosa and dug in. I stand by the article as it was written. She said It is possible it was a setup, I will never know. I said that the POWs claiming torture were liars, hypocrites, and pawns. She called our president, according to this report, "a new type of Hitler," pilots "war criminals.". Many Americans traveled to Chris Appy, a historian who has written about Vietnam, told HNN he once asked POW Porter Halyburton about the claims made against Fonda. HANNITY: All right. I get up, and as I start to walk back to the car with the translator, the implication of what has just happened hits me. The story surfaced on the Internet in 1999, and my guess is that it will live there a long time. 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.. Megyn Kelly ended her 12-year run with Fox News in early 2017 in exchange for a weekday show at NBC. After all, she is an American; surely shell carry the message home to the families that their husband or son is alive. If I was Vietnamese, I probably would have tried to do the same thing, you know, but I should not have gone. Also Read: Megyn Kelly Trashed by Rosie O'Donnell as 'Spineless Wanna Be Barbie' for Jane Fonda Spat. Ive never really wanted to settle.. During the visit she posed for several pictures. She and actor Donald Sutherland started an anti-USO troupe to counter Bob Hopes famous shows for the troops. Jane Fonda was more than just an actress born to a wealthy and prominent Hollywood family. She was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun on a 1972 visit to Hanoi, during which she gained the nickname "Hanoi Jane". [5] One man who was supposed to have encountered Jane Fonda, one Colonel Larry Carrigan, has denied any claim that he ever met her. The cameras flash. She now hosts "New Day" on CNN. He was Americas most famous pediatrician. Her rebellion against the foreign policies of the United States suggested to many outraged Americans that treason might have an All-American face, a familiar accent, and be closer to home than the Other that had previously been assumed to embody the enemy. CHRIS 1990) Pages 121-123. Troop B, 2nd squadron, 17th Cavalry, RVN, 1969-70 Im not you know, they all went to jail. 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. Especially considering that the Republican Party has obviously now been captured by the same forces (the 'Illuminati', hehehe). I was not the kind of mother that I wished I had been to my children. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. And you were photographed sitting on an anti aircraft gun. 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. After we published Peter Braunsteins article on Jane Fonda in our July/August issue, perhaps 60 people sent me this story. Its more than being a traitor; millions of Americans felt treasonous during that war. She said that she regretted it. ED GRUMMETT, USMC: The night before we made the landing at Chu Yuan (ph) we were listening to Hanoi Hannah and how they were going to annihilate us on the beach. [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. If a prisoner tried to escape, it is quite understandable that he would probably be beaten and tortured., Also Read: How Jane Fonda Explains 'Hanoi Jane': 'Regret to My Dying Day', Even she had to apologize years later for that gun picture True. 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. 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. She sided with the Viet Cong as revolutionary liberators. And she travelled to Hanoi at a time when North Vietnamese soldiers were killing Americans. officer gets an idea. Chiang refused to be extorted, citing his revulsion of the international banking cartel. Hundreds of Americans had gone to North Vietnam, journalists diplomats, our Secretary of State Ramsey Clark, Vietnam veterans, but I said but a movie star hasnt gone and maybe if I go it will draw more attention, and thats what it did. 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. 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." And, as she does, each POW palms her a scrap of paper with his Social Security number written on it. In it, she apologizes once again for insulting the men and women who fought in Vietnam. Halyburton told him that the POW's had tried to debunk them even though they regarded Fonda as an unsympathetic figure. 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. Market data provided by Factset. Why? 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. Fonda told the audience that their protests saddened her. You're a great American. I mean again, I'm not trying to be pedantic about it, but an apology is, "I'm sorry for what I said. 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. Fonda shakes the last hand, then turns to the officer and gives him the fistful of messages. If I was used, I allowed it to happen. And that we probably couldnt win it not because they werent a fabulous soldiers. Alisyn Camerota hosted a number of Fox News programs during a 16-year run that ended in 2014. It sounds loony until you actually think about it - and the general thesis of "no-win wars" (i.e. A new HBO documentary on Fondas life, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, explores the fallout for the actress, who is now 80. We now see a pattern of sedition/treason. It was my mistake, and I have paid and continue to pay a heavy price for it. 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. So I feel that well If I did was good, except that I shouldnt have set gone out to a military place. You know, we can we can scare her, and boy did they try? Have a tip or story idea? He was denied his request to gather intelligence by aerial reconnaissance over China. Its going to look like I was trying to shoot down U.S. planes! Do any right-wingers ever decry the fact that Bush and the conservatives overthrew Aristide because he was a socialists----then invited the Chinese Communists in to our hemisphere? But the action that still enrages veterans most was that photograph of her with North Vietnamese troops onan antiaircraft gunthat would have been used to shoot down American planes. Ramsey Clark went to Hanoi during the war. NORTH: Irrefutable for the three things she did, and I defined for you the rule, the actual constitutional language defining treason. I plead with him, You have to be sure those photographs are not published. A young photographer took this harrowing image of the Vietnam War. Ramsey Clark went to Hanoi during the war. Ms. Fonda only met with those POW's who had sold out their fellow POW's, who willingly (without torture) made propaganda statements for their captors, and who enjoyed privileges of medical care, food, and even night-time excursions into Hanoi to watch movies in return. Fifty years later, he bears witness again. The Roger Ailes and Bill OReilly scandals have cast even some old departures in a new light. She still does not know what she did wrong. Please try again later. In July 1972, during the waning days of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, actress Jane Fonda incurred the enmity of untold thousands of Vietnam veterans and their families (as well as service members for generations to come) when she arrived in Hanoi, North Vietnam, and began a two-week tour of the country. Each of them suggested that they had done at least one interview with Fonda, and individually they were looking into the historical accuracy behind the claims made about Fonda and why she became such a lighting rod for controversy. In her 2005 memoir, My Life So Far, Fonda wrote of the infamous photo this way: Still,for some veterans, no apology from Fonda will ever change their views of her as an adversaryof America and the troops during wartime.