I didn’t know what else to do.” She also debunks myths about her trip in the blogpost, saying that “the lies distort the truth of why I went to North Vietnam and they perpetuate the myth that being anti-war means being anti-soldier. Please, you can’t let them be published.’ I was assured it would be taken care of. During the photo sessions during her visit to Vietnam, she strongly believed were setups and a grave mistake on her part. It’s going to look like I was trying to shoot down US planes.’ I pleaded with him, ‘You have to be sure those photographs are not published. I got up, and as I started to walk back to the car with the translator, the implication of what had just happened hit me. The latter take goes back to her protests during Vietnam War, and, more specifically, a photo that she recently. “I hardly even thought about where I was sitting. Jane Fonda is an icon to many while for others, she remains an enemy of the U.S. In a lengthy blog on her own website in 2011, she gives her side of the story. This famous person goes and does something that looks like I’m against the troops, which wasn’t true, but it looked that way, and I’m a convenient target.” and she went to Vietnam to advance her husband’s career.”įonda added that she understood this anger, and that she often met with veterans to discuss it: “I’m a lightning rod. One protestor told the Frederick News Post, “She got Americans killed. There was outrage at the pictures and Fonda was branded a traitor, but she has frequently regretted them. Posing for foreign Press atop a Hanoi Anti Aircraft Gun.
#JANE FONDA VIETNAM PHOTO GUN SERIES#
The series of photos were taken during Fonda’s visit to Hanoi, where she met with North Vietnamese troops, and was pictured sat on an anti-aircraft gun being used to target American planes. Jane Fonda toured North Vietnam in 1972, during which she cozied up to the enemy. Protestors had massed outside the event with copies of the photo and signs reading “Forgive? Maybe. “It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers,” she said at a personal speaking engagement in Frederick, Maryland. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.Jane Fonda has once again expressed regret over the infamous ‘Hanoi Jane’ picture taken of her during the Vietnam war. The photo sparked immediate outrage in the U.S., as it gave the very anti-American impression that Fonda was so opposed to the war that she. In the picturewhich earned her the infamous nickname Hanoi JaneFonda is seen sitting on an anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi. American civil rights activists and humanitarian workers to. It was a photo op she participated in during a 1972 visit to North Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, it was not uncommon for. This story first appeared in a February standalone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. cameras on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. “The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda’s daughter, sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal,” she said, “the largest lapse of judgment I can imagine.” I will never know.”įonda told 60 Minutes in 2005 that the trip, where she met with peasants, artists and intellectuals, was worthwhile - but the photo was a mistake. Then someone led her to a weapon that had shot down countless American aircraft, and flashbulbs went off.
“I heard these words: ‘All men are created equal they are given certain rights among these are life, liberty and happiness,’ ” she recalled. In 2011, Fonda wrote on her website that the photo op - which earned her the nickname “Hanoi Jane” and incensed millions of Americans - came about after Vietnamese soldiers serenaded her with a Communist folk song. soldiers had lost their lives in the conflict Vietnamese casualties were close to 1 million. streets for the Women’s March to protest Donald Trump’s policies, already was one of Hollywood’s most outspoken opponents of the Vietnam War when, at 34, she made a two-week trip to Hanoi in July 1972. The future Oscar winner sat on an anti-aircraft gun, posed for pictures and sang songs with members of the North Vietnamese military. The actress and activist, who took to the L.A. Jane Fonda has already apologized for posing with members of the Viet Cong, an act that permanently stained her among many Americans as Hanoi Jane.
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