I'm sorry I hurt you, Alan, and I hope you can forgive me." Megyn Kelly lit into Jane Fonda on Monday, highlighting the behavior that earned the actress the nickname Hanoi Jane while defending the time last fall when she questioned Fonda about plastic surgery. quote: Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War. placement: 'Right Rail Thumbnails', And the question I have is 50 years later, how do you look back on that particular chapter? 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. However, the fact that she advocated Communism does not give anyone license to make up stories or slander. Shewas arrested before she got the chance, just as she had been at Fort Lewis, Wash., Fort Hood, Tex., and Fort Bragg, N.C. Fonda told The Post shed made talking to GIs herfull-time job. 1991) Pages 225-229. She still does not know what she did wrong. Whether youre a lifelong resident of D.C. or you just moved here, weve got you covered. To license content, please contact licenses [at] americanheritage.com. mode: 'thumbnails-b', Read more >>, The magazine was forced to suspend print publication in 2013, but a group of volunteers saved the archives and relaunched it in digital form in 2017. And I didnt even think and they sang me a song and Im made me laugh. But newly discovered tapes tell a very, very different story. But the reality of it is, Alan, this is a woman,who I quite frankly feel sorry for. The cover called her Ms. It was treason, nothing more and nothing less. "VIET NAM: A repeat scenario was played 10 years later under another banker-picked Democratic administration. Fonda consorted with the enemy and made propaganda broadcasts on their behalf. The cameras flash. But NORTH (voice-over): Thirty-five hundred Marines came ashore. It was my mistake, and I have paid and continue to pay a heavy price for it. 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. But he never met Jane Fonda, and he has no idea how the maddening tale attached itself to him. Good question here Richard: "My question is, when will people like Fonda and Kerry (unlike Joan Baez) take responsibility for what they have wrought -- the totalitarian system that gave us re-education camps and the boat people?" If I was Vietnamese, I probably would have tried to do the same thing, you know, but I should not have gone. His replacement, General Ridgway, said after the war: "The reason we didn't win is because I was under orders not to win". But she was advised by other activists to focus her political energies, deciding to go all-in as an impassioned voice for the antiwar movement. She apologized for being on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site. WebJane Fonda & TheVietnam War. Watch above via HBO Max and CNNs Whos Talking to Chris Wallace. As the war raged, the one-time blonde bombshell cut her naturally brown hair short, trading sex appeal for liberal activism and rebranding herself as a political crusader against the war. A young photographer took this harrowing image of the Vietnam War. Tom Cotton Gets Revenge On Liberal Media: Acting like lawyers for Chinese communists, Joy Behar Shocks World, Defends Marjorie Taylor Greene On The View, Kellyanne Conway and George Conway To Divorce After 22 Years of Marriage: Report, He started crying like a baby that lost his pacifier: Florida Sheriff On Tough Guy Rapper Arrested For Murder, White House Doctor Drops Friday Bombshell: Joe Biden Has Cancerous Tissue Removed, Ted Cruz Calls For Anthony Fauci To Be Prosecuted And Jailed For Lying To Congress, Robert F. Kennedy Jr Puts Biden On Notice, Says Hes Thinking About Running Against Joe In Dem Primary. Now, I leave it NORTH: Well, yes, as a matter of fact I think she is. She was young and famous at the time, maybe the Iraqi insurgents could get some of the present crop of empty headed celebrities, Britney Spears perhaps, to pose next to those Muslim mopes in robes and head towels while they aim their weapons. The Bushes have a long-standing relationship with Red China, one that has hardmed our national security, yet few attack them as vociferously as Fonda was attacked. Her lawsuit started it all: Former Fox host Gretchen Carlson claims Ailes repeatedly sexually harassed her. The one story that was true never touched the question of whether or not she directly participated in war crimes. She called the POW's liars. She said:I have very few regrets. I plead with him, You have to be sure those photographs are not published. Watch "Hannity & Colmes" weeknights at 9 p.m. They landed two months later on 7 May with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. And therein lies the difference. But Jane Fonda: Cancel my subscription!, In replying, I discovered that the Good Book notwithstanding, a soft answer turneth away wrath no more than zo percent of the time. Here are her comments: Many of our veterans still call her Hanoi Jane thanks to her radio broadcasts, which attempted to shame American troops. Fondas wide-ranging response went from apologetic to defiant and everywhere in between: CHRIS WALLACE: Your most famous protest was 50 years ago when you went to North Vietnam at the height of the war there. . Megyn Kelly ended her 12-year run with Fox News in early 2017 in exchange for a weekday show at NBC. They realized that the war was wrong, that we werent wanted there. I agree with TheWrap's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and provide my consent to receive marketing communications from them. Imagine its the Battle of the Bulge and Betty Grable is up on top of a German tank saying the Yanks are fighting an evil war. Its not a preposterous analogynot as far as the soldiers involved are concerned. Thank you, sir. Those words were written by Michael Benge, a civilian advisor captured by the Viet Cong in 1968 and held as a POW for 5 years. Many Americans traveled to Vietnam on peace delegations to end the war, yet it was Jane Fonda who was captured as a timeless image when she was photographed looking through a Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun. 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CHRIS WALLACE: When you got that nickname Hanoi Jane, how did you feel at the time? There was a real Colonel Carrigan, and he was a POW in Vietnam. Jane Fonda came clean in an interview with Chris Wallace about her Hanoi Jane days and her failure as a mother. So did Joan Baez and William Sloane Coffin, Noam Chomsky and Pete Seeger, Rennie Davis and Judy Collins. She said It is possible it was a setup, I will never know. Never. and booed people attending the event, according to the Frederick News-Post. Jane Fonda was always an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. 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. . On a hot, stickyMay afternoon in 1970,a crowd of several thousand students and protesterstook over the University of Maryland mall. I mean, the fact is, there's no statute on treason, by the way. 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. Free subscription>>, Please consider a donation to help us keep this American treasure alive. And heres Cat Ballou, the beautiful daughter of Young Abe Lincoln, of Mister Roberts, beaming down from a machine designed to kill them. In it, she apologizes once again for insulting the men and women who fought in Vietnam. A new HBO documentary on Fondas life, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, explores the fallout for the actress, who is now 80. That's an apology. Coffee houses. CHRIS WALLACE: Who the people in the Nixon administration? The chance to remake oneself is a universally acknowledged strength of this Republic, and the Republic itself has done it often enough. She went to tour the countrys dike system, which was rumored to have been intentionally bombed by American forces something the U.S. government to this day forcefully denies. CNN anchorChris Wallace grilled Hollywood legend and activist Jane Fonda over her controversial visit to North Vietnam that caused millions to dub her Hanoi Jane, and got a full spectrum response on the subject. So setting aside the issue of whether plastic surgery has anything to do with Vietnam, is Kelly right about Fondas record? The alleged mission was to prevent communism from spreading to South Korea, a peninsula pointed at now disarmed Japan. Jane Fonda is a star of stage and screen whose career began in 1960. COLMES: Many of us forgive many of us forgive George W. Bush (search) for being young and irresponsible, and maybe we can also forgive Jane Fonda. Heres a transcript of her remarks so you can judge for yourself. Support with a donation>>. It meant re-taking the same bloody ground over and over again. Then Dr. Spock attacked the Vietnam draft. Here is my best, honest recollection of what took place. At that time, over 60,000 American soldiers had lost their lives, and almost one million Vietnamese. The charges against Fonda went beyond the notion that she was an apologist for the mistreatment of American prisoners of war. Ramsey Clark went to Hanoi during the war. "STRATAGEMS of DEFEAT AND NO-WIN WARS Thus, Europe, Russia, China, Korea, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, the Middle East were turned into killing grounds, and their existing governments destroyed. It is possible that the Vietnamese had it all planned. JANE FONDA: It was a terrible mistake. Subsequently communist China was awarded a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, its most powerful chair. The story surfaced on the Internet in 1999, and my guess is that it will live there a long time. Outspoken host Elisabeth Hasselbeck left "The View" to join "Fox & Friends" in 2013, which she exited at the end of 2015. I wanted to tell them what I was seeing as an American on the ground there. Deprived of American assistance, his army bereft of supplies, Chiang Kai-Shek retreated to the island sanctuary of Formosa and dug in. Mao Tse-Tung, of "Little Red Book" fame, and darling of the New York-Hollywood "elite", then proceeded to murder 65 million of his countrymen in what David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski call "a glorious revolution." Shewas active in the Black Panthers and marched for the rights of American Indians, soldiers and working mothers. I think that there is a lot of selectivity going on. In 2015, about 50 veterans stood outside theWeinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, Md., to protest Fondas appearance there. And you know, maybe I was set up but I was an adult, its Im gonna take responsibility for it. Again the secret policy of the financiers was: "containment of communism" while disallowing an American victory. I dug in my heels. "KOREA: Shortly thereafter Truman, with Congress averting its eyes, committed U.S. troops to Korea. I spent many years its when I made coming home talking to American soldiers, who had been in Vietnam and the things they told me were heartbreaking. When I contacted him, Benge confirmed that the story was indeed his own, and true." CHRIS WALLACE: Your most famous protest was 50 years ago when you went to North Vietnam at the height of the war there. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. quote: Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the But he never met Jane Fonda, and he has no idea how the maddening tale attached itself to him. Its folklore, but folklore of a curiously evolved sort. We're going to take them out. 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. I mean, it depends on what you want to know. What most Viet-Nam veterans think about Jane Fonda is expressed in a number of products sold by D & G Enterprises, . War materiel, shipped via the