When Rockefeller said what he said about the Cultural Revolution (in an Op Ed that I read long ago, attesting to its existence), he was addressing the Communist system as a Fascist system with potential for realizing corporate/banker control much more than as a "Marxist" system. In 1972, the Academy Award-winning actress and activist traveled to North Vietnam and was photographed laughing and clapping along with Vietnamese soldiers. Sheturned down a four-year, $100 million offer to stay with Fox News saying that one of the reasonsfor her departure was to spend more time with her kids. If they did, can I really blame them? And it was a terrible mistake because of the image that it showed, which was not at all what the reality was. Did our government lie to us during Vietnam? . Jane Fondas first impression of Americas involvement in Vietnam was that it was a just cause. Id been getting pretty sour about the incensed patriots who would curse me and my family and confidently speak on behalf of all veterans living and dead, and the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress, to declare I was a disgrace to America for running that storythen conclude by smugly assuring me they would never read it. If you must know, my original draft did make reference to the one true story that you mentioned. On the basis of those meetings alone, she proclaimed that American POW's weren't being mistreated, and that any who said they were mistreated werte either liars, or were simply experiencing punishment for their racist treatment and attitude towards their Vietnamese captors. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Many of our veterans still call her Hanoi Jane thanks to her radio broadcasts: True, but she doesnt just have the nickname because of the radio broadcasts. It has simply been repeated over and over again, without proof, and duplicated on a number of websites. She said It is possible it was a setup, I will never know. Oh, my God. Heres her explanation, from 2011: I had decided to do the broadcasts because I was so horrified by the bombing of civilian targets and I wanted to speak to U.S. pilots as I had done on so many occasions during my visits to U.S. military bases and at G.I. She and actor Donald Sutherland started an anti-USO troupe to counter Bob Hopes famous shows for the troops. I make it a habit not to intervene as an intern. I never asked pilots to desert. JANE FONDA: Well, I didnt like 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. There is certainly no doubt that the country was basically split down the middle on the idea of our military presence in SE Asia, and as Americans we were all free to protest the war to our hearts' content. Kiran Chetry was a Fox News host from 2001 to 2007. There's nothing like a historian 'cherry-picking' his citations or only presenting a partial 'truth' from his source. Fonda moves down the line, greeting each man with encouragements like Arent you ashamed you killed babies? as she shakes his hand. 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. MacArthur publicly insisted upon victory, infuriating the international banks. 1972: 'Hanoi' Jane--Text from CNN.com, "Vietnam: Echoes of War, Cultural Timeline" Jane Fonda -- actress, political activist and partner of anti-war "Flashpoint Vietnam," the real story about the road to the war.
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