Following her divorce from Turner, Ms. Fonda published her autobiography, and made a return to acting in the films Monster-in-Law with actresses Jennifer Lopez and Wanda Sykes, and then Georgia Rule with Lindsay Lohan. Also untrue is that any POW died for refusing to meet with Fonda.It has been reported in the media and on the Internet that two POWs were tortured in an effort to force them into meeting with Fonda. who are so gentle and poetic, whose voices are so beautiful, but is no more prostitution as there was during the time when this “Ex-POW Is No Fan of Fonda, But He Debunks E-Mail Claim.”London, Herbert. Fonda had only a single meeting with a small group of POWs, and there were plenty of volunteers for the occasion:The seven men who met with [Fonda] were not coerced into the meeting; indeed, many more pilots wanted to meet with her than were able. I have spoken with all the parties named: Carrigan, Driscoll, et al. By July 1972, when Fonda accepted an invitation to visit North Vietnam, America had been at war overseas and with itself for years. None of the POWs who met with Jane Fonda had any need to resort to the form of subterfuge claimed in these Internet rumors in order to get information about themselves carried to friends and family back home.Additionally, no POWs were tortured to coerce them into meeting with Jane Fonda or for refusing to do so.
Miller only wanted to see her because he knew she was Henry Fonda’s daughter.The seven POWs and Fonda met around a large table surrounded by chairs. And at the country that gave me privilege. good fighters.I cherish the way a farmer evacuated from The persons named in inflammatory claims about this alleged incident have repeatedly and categorically denied the events they supposedly were part of.First of all, the whole premise on which this tale is based is contradicted by the plain reality of the situation: none of the POWs Jane Fonda met needed to furtively hand her messages encoding their identities in order to “get word to the world that they still survived.” Fonda spent about an hour talking with a single group of seven POWs whose names she had ample opportunity to learn during that time; the POWs didn’t need to sneak Fonda pieces of paper with their Social Security numbers written on them, as she could simply have remembered their names and repeated them once she returned home. No one knows who initiated the story. by invading, by attacking in any way. Ive spoken to many peasants who talked about the days when their parents had to sell themselves to landlords as virtual slaves, when there were very few schools and much illiteracy, inadequate medical care, when they were not masters of their own lives. Please assist by not propagating the story. written by Ho Chi Minh.
The beautiful Temple of Literature was where I saw traditional dances and heard songs of resistance. a textile factory, a kindergarten in Hanoi. Larry Carrigan, the U.S. serviceman whose name is invoked in the e-mailed reproduced at the head of this article, has affirmed that he neither claimed nor experienced any of what has been attributed to him, and that he never even met Jane Fonda:“It’s a figment of somebody’s imagination.” said Ret.
that I have to resort to this pre-scripted rebuttal. Her parents were Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Brokaw (née Seymour; 1908–1950) and American actor Henry Fonda (1905–1982). visit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, I've had the opportunity “I don’t think there was anything wrong with it. Herewith is her famous speech: "This is Jane Fonda. That was my goal.”Abrams, Garry. This is Jane Fonda. That story is false. “The people who are speaking out against the war are the patriots.” She said the radio addresses were the only way to get access to American soldiers, because she was barred from meeting them at their bases in South Vietnam.Although Fonda’s actions in visiting North Vietnam were sufficient to earn her the wrath of many Americans, in the years since those events took place they have been embellished to the point that the one tale most commonly associated with her Vietnam trip is an incident that never took place — a tale about U.S. POWs who furtively slipped messages to Fonda while she was meeting with them and whom Fonda promptly betrayed by turning those messages over to the POWs’ North Vietnamese captors (resulting in several of those prisoners’ being beaten, tortured, or killed):“There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Jane Fonda’s participation in what I believe to be blatant treason, is one of them. We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. However, to date, Jane Fonda has never been formally charged with anything and continues to enjoy the privileged life of the rich and famous.“I, personally, think that this is shame on us, the American Citizenry.“Part of our shortfall is ignorance: Most don’t know such actions ever took place.“The only addition I might add to these sentiments is to remember the satisfaction of relieving myself into the urinal at some air base or another where ‘zaps’ of Hanoi Jane’s face had been applied.”The facts are that while in North Vietnam, Fonda met with only a single group of seven U.S POWs: all seven of those POWs agreed to meet with her, no POWs were tortured for declining to meet with her (or for behaving inappropriately during the meeting), and no POWs secretly slipped Fonda messages which she turned over to the North Vietnamese. Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. “ABA Invite to Fonda an Outrage.”Itkowitz, Colby.
This is Jane Fonda. Col. Carrigan was almost number four.“For years after their release, a group of determined former POWs, including Col. Carrigan, tried to bring Ms. Fonda and others up on charges of treason. North Vietnamese press reported and Fonda later confirmed that she made several radio announcements over the Voice of Vietnam r… Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJs, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American ‘Peace Activist’ the ‘lenient and humane treatment’ he’d received. Actress Jane Fonda is shown in a Nov. 3, 1970, police mug shot after her arrest in Cleveland. '”“Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. nature and foreign invaders--and the last 25 years, prior to the Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security number on it, in the palm of his hand.