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According to the Washington Post, it was taken in 1972 during her controversial trip to North Vietnam and shows her sitting with Vietnamese soldiers on an antiaircraft gun, the sort used to shoot ...
Fonda was photographed seated on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun; the photo outraged a number of Americans, [97] and earned her the nickname "Hanoi Jane". [98] [99] In her 2005 autobiography, she wrote that she was manipulated into sitting on the battery; she had been horrified at the implications of the pictures. In a 2011 entry on her ...
F.T.A. was released in July 1972, "within days of Fonda's infamous visit to Hanoi" and seems to have suffered from the political fallout of Fonda's travels. The film "was in theatres barely a week before it was pulled from circulation by its distributor, American International Pictures." Even more, "[m]ost copies were destroyed", which seems to ...
Fonda told Barbara Walters during an interview in 1988 that sitting on the gun was "a thoughtless and careless thing to have done." She apologized to Vietnam War veterans and their families at the ...
During the 2004 presidential election campaign an image was released that showed John Kerry and Jane Fonda speaking together at an anti-Vietnam War protest. The image turned out to be a politically motivated forgery, intended to link Kerry with Fonda, whom some consider a traitor after her controversial visit to Hanoi during the Vietnam War.
Nguyen refers to Fonda in the letter as “Hanoi Jane,” a nickname she was given after her trip to the city in Vietnam, and calls her a “propagandist who supported a Communist agenda in ...
July – U.S. actress Jane Fonda tours North Vietnam, during which she is photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. July 1 Ms. magazine begins publication. [5] The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms becomes independent from the IRS. July 4 – The first Rainbow Gathering is held in Colorado.
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