I don't think they know," Fonda said in a news conference when she returned home. "I appealed to them to please consider what you are doing. North Vietnamese press reported - and Fonda later confirmed - that she made several radio announcements over the Voice of Vietnam radio to implore U.S. During her two-week stay, Fonda concluded that America was unjustly bombing farmland and areas far flung from military targets. government to this day forcefully denies. She went to tour the country's dike system, which was rumored to have been intentionally bombed by American forces - something the U.S. POWs at a meeting arranged by her North Vietnamese guides and posed for photographs at an antiaircraft emplacement set up in a rural area just outside Hanoi: servicemen via Radio Hanoi met with international visitors and reporters who were also in North Vietnam spent about an hour chatting with seven U.S. military policy in recordings broadcast as propaganda to U.S.
Fonda visited North Vietnamese villages, hospitals, schools, and factories damaged in the war, weaving her comments about what she observed at those sites with denunciations 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. “This is an unconstitutional, unprecedented, unnecessary and mean-spirited bill,” Kerry declared then.In July 1972, during the waning days of U.S. Kerry also opposed federal legislation in 1996 that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, comparing the law to 1960s efforts in the South to criminalize interracial marriages. On the home front, it emerged yesterday that Kerry – who opposes same-sex marriage and hints he might support a limited ban – just two years ago signed a letter with other congressional colleagues urging the Massachusetts Legislature to drop a constitutional amendment outlawing homosexual nuptials. war atrocities.Īlso yesterday, the Harvard Crimson, a student newspaper, said it interviewed Kerry in 1970 when he wanted “to almost eliminate CIA activity” and said: “I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.” Randy Cunningham (R-Calif.), one of the most decorated Vietnam combat pilots, said just appearing with Fonda was “a slap in the face to people like myself,” as was Kerry’s 1971 testimony to Congress alleging U.S. The Kerry campaign confirmed the photo – first posted on the Web site – is authentic, but said Kerry and Fonda were just acquaintances and he disapproved of the Hanoi trip she took.īut Rep. After returning from Vietnam, he became an antiwar activist. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam vet who served in the Navy, has stressed his military record in the presidential race and questioned President Bush’s National Guard service. I don’t even think we shook hands,” Fonda said. We were at a rally for veterans at the same time. “Any attempts to link Kerry to me and make him look bad with that connection is completely false. The Kerry camp was concerned enough about the photo to circulate comments that Fonda made on CNN yesterday, distancing herself from Kerry and claiming she remembers the rally 34 years ago well enough to be pretty sure they didn’t shake hands.
That earned her the moniker “Hanoi Jane.” Democratic front-runner John Kerry’s past as an anti-Vietnam War activist came back to haunt him yesterday when a photo surfaced of Kerry with actress Jane Fonda at a 1970 protest rally.įonda touches a raw nerve with many Vietnam vets, because she went to Hanoi and posed atop an anti-aircraft gun as if waiting for a chance to shoot down U.S.
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