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The long-standing claim that Jane Fonda turned smuggled messages from U.S. POWs over to their North Vietnamese captors is false.
A series of photos of her sitting at an NVA anti-aircraft battery earned her the nickname “Hanoi Jane” and the undying spite of Vietnam veterans everywhere.
In her own blunt-force, actress-as-center-of-attention way, Fonda tried to segment the war from the warrior, something the nation at large failed to do during the Vietnam era (and for years afterwards).
By July 1972, when Fonda accepted an invitation to visit North Vietnam, America had been at war overseas and with itself for years.
In July, 1972, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Jane Fonda became infamous. The Vietnam War had been raging for nearly 10 years. U.S. citizens did not yet know about the burglary that had taken place...
In 1972 Jane Fonda made the most controversial journey of her life: a trip to the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. Her anti-American radio broadcasts and her dealings with American POWs have...
Actress and activist Jane Fonda earned the nickname “Hanoi Jane” after posing for a photo atop an anti-aircraft gun during a visit to North Vietnam in 1972. Fonda later called her actions a...