Jane Fonda's Address to U.S. POWs on Radio Hanoi

Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation ^ | September 28, 2006 | Jane Fonda

[Interesting Times]

In a commentary on Nixon’s declaration that he has made progress in ending the war and particularly in ending American involvement in the war, visiting American actress Jane Fonda said Monday morning:

((Recorded voice of a woman with an American accent – FBIS))

As the elections in the United States are drawing near, Richard Nixon is using the most cynical and criminal kinds of lies and trickery to fool the American opinion and world opinion into believing that he is trying to end the war in Indochina. How can he be ending the war when he is killing more people in Indochina than ever before, dropping more tons of bombs than ever before, creating more damage than ever before, and now bombing the dikes in the Red River delta, endangering the lives of 15 million people and their crops and animals.

He is counting on what he believes, that the American have no conscience. He believes that the American people don't care, since there are fewer American lives being lost. But he is wrong. We will learn the truth. Individuals who have come here have had the honor to have come here and -- and met -- meet the Vietnamese people and seen the damage being done. We will speak out louder than ever before. We will expose his lies, particularly now in this most important time just prior to elections.

We know that there is only one way to end the war, and that is in the Paris peace talks. The only way to end the war 1s by addressing ourselves in honor and in -- and in -- as true peace-loving people to the Seven-Point Proposal put forward last July 31st by the Provisional Revolutionary Government. The United States must set a date unconditionally for all troops -- air troops, ground troops, and CIA advisors to withdraw from Indochina. We must stop the support of the Thieu clique and let the people of South Vietnam to decide for themselves what kind of government they want to live under. And we will speak out about the Seven Points all over the world.

((Announcer's voice -- FBIS))

Commenting on U.S. attacks on North Vietnam's dikes and irrigation works, Jane Fonda said:

((Recorded voice of a woman with an American accent -- FBIS))

A relatively short time ago ((words indistinct)) 3 years ago, people told me that the United States government was committing crimes in -- in Vietnam, crimes on the ground against the people and crimes from the air with bombs. And I refused to believe it. I thought very hard because I had been brought up to believe that the United States government stood for freedom and democracy. Then I began to study -- I began to read, I began to listen to reports coming from the battlefield, and I began to talk to soldiers. Brave heroes of the war would come back from Indochina and I was told that it is we who committed crimes, it is we who burned villages and massacred civilian people and raped the Vietnamese women. It is we who did it and we are sorry, and we want the Amer1can people to know what is being done in their names.

And at that point I have had to, like tens of thousands of other American people, I had to let go of the lie. I had to admit to myself – and we all must -- that somewhere along the way the United States stopped being what it hoped to be in the beginning when we first fought a revolutionary war to free ourselves from the British, from the British control.

This is what is happening in Vietnam today. It is a people fighting to be free. They are fighting a righteous, revolutionary war to be free and independent the way we, the American people, did in the beginning of our own country. And we must allow them to do this. And if we are true Americans, and if we truly believe what it is our country stands for or started out to stand for, we must not only stop these barbarous acts being committed against the Vietnamese people, but we must help them achieve their revolution.

We must do everything we can in the name of democracy and freedom to allow them to live in peace and independence and freedom. We must take the opportunity since we are here on their soil -- under whatever conditions we are here -- to study their culture and study their history and talk to the Vietnamese people, try to sensitize ourselves to another kind of culture. One of the worst things that has taken place in the United States, I believe, is that we are cut off from other peoples around the world. We are -- we are made to -- to lack respect for other peoples, particularly people who are not white. And I think that this is wrong, I feel that people who are truly American and truly patriotic must say we love all people, and we have to understand how all people live, and we have to respect everyone's right for independence.

And, I'm sure that you -- that you know that we wish that you come home as fast as possible. I believe that the people who are speaking out against the war, who are trying to stop the war -- by voting against Mr. Nixon for one thing, by economic boycott for another thing, and by education and persuasion among the general American public -- that it is we who are doing what is best to get you home as fast as possible. The key to the prisons in the northern part of Vietnam is in Nixon's hands. It is Nixon who -- who will be able to free all of the prisoners. He can do this by (authoring?) the Seven-Point Peace Proposal that was put forward a year ago, last July.

It is very important for us to understand that the solution to your problems has existed for 1 year, for 1 year. If Richard Nixon at the Paris Peace Talks last July had addressed himself to the Seven-Point Peace Proposal, which is recognized by people all over the world as being the most just and righteous proposal ever put forward by one side during a period of war, all of you would have been home within 3 months. And we think this is a crime.

We think it is a crime that the President of the United States has cynically prevented your freedom, has cynically lied to the American people, making them believe that it is he who is seeking peace, when we know it is the contrary.

We hope that you are taking this time to study, to learn, so that when you come home you can speak to the rest of the American people. And we hope that will be soon.

((Recording ends -- FBIS)

[Interesting Times]

This is the first of 19 transcripts of Jane Fonda's 1972 broadcasts on Radio Hanoi that were preserved in the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) archives. The Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation has just made them available online for the first time. A number of Fonda's propaganda broadcasts were printed in the Congressional Record and reproduced in Dr. Henry Holzer's book Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam. So far as I am aware, this July 10, 1972 broadcast has never before been made public.

[Interesting Times]

Hanoi Jane ping...

[BookaT]

damn she was a stupid whore!

[Enchante]

Pure propaganda for the bloodthirsty beasts of Hanoi.... Jane Fonda was/is the "Tokyo Rose" of our day (even though it turns out there may not have been any one "Tokyo Rose" to compare with Hanoi Jane). She is working on behalf of the defeat of the USA here....

"We know that there is only one way to end the war, and that is in the Paris peace talks. The only way to end the war 1s by addressing ourselves in honor and in -- and in -- as true peace-loving people to the Seven-Point Proposal put forward last July 31st by the Provisional Revolutionary Government. The United States must set a date unconditionally for all troops -- air troops, ground troops, and CIA advisors to withdraw from Indochina. We must stop the support of the Thieu clique and let the people of South Vietnam to decide for themselves what kind of government they want to live under. And we will speak out about the Seven Points all over the world."

[onyx]

Thanks for the ping to "interesting times" of the past that still apply today.

[Lurker]

damn she was a stupid whore!

What do you mean 'was'?

L

[laweeks]

Is she alive? I thought she and that French-looking guy that ran for president were shot as traitors. Golly. What did I miss?

[loreldan]

Substitute "Vietnam" for "Iraq" and she doesn't sound much different than many Democrats today.

[proud_yank]

More people died as a result of communism *after* we pulled out of Vietnam, than died during the war.

Does anyone have the pics of the veteran who spat on her at a booksigning? I think its worthy of being posted here.

[RaceBannon]

le bump!!

[P-40]

let the people of South Vietnam to decide for themselves what kind of government they want to live under

Well....I wonder how that worked out.....

[Interesting Times]

It's worth noting that John Kerry had also recommended an earlier version of Madame Binh's Seven Point Plan to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in April, 1971.

[republican4ever]

"...damn she was a stupid whore!..." Was???

[sgtbono2002]

***damn she was a stupid whore!***

Damn: She IS a stupid whore.

Nothing has changed.

[BMC1]

Not was...IS.

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump!

[prairiebreeze]

Jane has the blood of thousands, maybe millions of innocent people on her hands because of her part in the anti-war propaganda that weakened American resolve and caused us to withdraw with the mission unfinished.

She and Cronkite and others will be held accountable. In this life or the next.

[DBrow]

I disagree. She worked hard for what she belived in and planned her actions to have the most effect.

A traitor, a liar, and someone with no patriotism or ethics, but far from stupid. She's still earning a good living in the USA.

[Eagles6]

You were having a wonderful dream and then you woke up.

[BookaT]

Ok we can disagree.

I am sure if she weighed 250# and was ugly she would have still have been able to get the coverage she got.


By using her looks for political reasons, right or wrong, she was(oops is(well was with looks)) being a Whore!

[DBrow]

Oh geez we don't disagree at all on that BookaT! I was commenting on the stupid part.

She's an intelligent whore, a despicable traitor, and is smart enough to know better.

And her communist ideology sucks too.

[nutmeg]

bookmark

[Bahbah]

Some of us learned lessons and some of us did not.

[jazusamo]

Jane Fonda should have been prosecuted for treason and spent her adult life in prison. She could have done her exercise program behind bars.

[Don Corleone]

We will NEVER forget!

[Chode]

Capt. Morgan J. Donahue USAF MIA-12/13/1968-Laos

[trashcanbred]

damn she was is a stupid whore!

[oyez]

If it is any comfort, the USSR paid out a butt load of cash on that war which created a hole in their economy that they never recovered. I wonder if Fonda had to be treated for depression when the Berlin Wall fell.

[SerpentDove]

>>We know that there is only one way to end the war, and that is in the Paris peace talks.

...The United States must set a date unconditionally for all troops -- air troops, ground troops, and CIA advisors to withdraw from Indochina.<<


These maggots never change.

[sergeantdave]

If Hanoi Jane were ordered to pray once each day over every single south-east Asian she helped murder, she would need to reincarnate for 100,000 years.

[river rat]

This POS is still alive and can appear in public without anymore fear of being harmed that the average citizen...


Folks we left behind, specifically our ethnic hill tribe allies - were pursued, persecuted and executed for another 20+ years -- fighting alone in the hills...

An armed group finally decided to leave Vietnam - they trekked across Laos and crossed into Thailand with their weapons, asking for sanctuary...just dozen or so years ago!

Most of the rest were killed... To say nothing of the Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians killed by the thugs or Communists... The communists made us look like kindergarten kids in comparison..

All because folks believed Fonda, Kerry, Cronkite and the Socialists/Communists in America...

We've NEVER heard a comment from them about how WRONG they were about EVERYTHING.....or apologize for the lies or slander against our warriors..

May she and her kind, rot in the lowest depths of hell...

Semper Fi

[unkus]

I was in the 101st Airborne in I Corps when she pulled this stunt. We all wished we could talk to the -itch in person.

[ErnBatavia]

She still is a stupid whore...only, I'd begin the spelling of the epithet with a "c".

[Interesting Times]

Some of us learned lessons and some of us did not.

At the time, Fonda was able with some success to pretend to be a "peace activist" rather than an open supporter of the North Vietnamese communists against the U.S. That ceased to be possible during the communist genocide that followed the U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia. Fonda not only didn't speak against the mass murders, but worked to intimidate the few other leaders of the "peace movement," such as Joan Baez, who broke ranks to express concern over the slaughter.

Most other antiwar leaders, including John Kerry, remained as silent as the grave.

[seasoned traditionalist]

SPRING 2004 (Volume 34, Number 1)

http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=412&hilite=jane+fonda

VVAW Letter of Support
By VVAW National Office

In recent months, VVAW and its credibility have come under attack from the loony Right and the mainstream press. As with the Nixon administration, these new voices are attacking us on whether or not we are really vets and whether we spoke the truth about the war and our participation in it.

Stand with VVAW now. Please sign on to this letter of support and get your friends to do so as well. For over 35 years, Vietnam Veterans Against the War has put itself on the line for veterans and active duty GIs.

Now we are putting ourselves on the line for Vietnam Veterans Against the War. This letter will be run as an advertisement in various publications and appear in the next issue of The Veteran.

The letter is printed below, along with the list of people who have already signed on. To show your support, please fill out the form.

Since its formation Vietnam Veterans Against the War has opposed unjust wars and supported the welfare of men and women on active duty. Whenever there has been a choice between the welfare of GIs and the interests of politicians, VVAW has always supported the welfare of fighting men and women.

The testimony of VVAW members in 1971 during the Winter Soldier Investigation first brought to public attention the conditions of service in Vietnam. Members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War worked tirelessly to establish the credentials and accuracy of each witness before the investigation. A confidential Nixon-administration team led by Charles Colson worked ruthlessly to undermine the testimony of each witness afterward. To this day none of the Winter Soldier Investigation evidence has been shown to have been false.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War has continued to focus attention on the many unmet needs of veterans. Members of VVAW developed the rap groups that served as the model for counseling at veterans' outreach centers. Vietnam Veterans

Against the War was the first organization to draw attention to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the shameful neglect of patients in VA hospitals, the harmful effect of exposure to Agent Orange, and the inadequacies of educational and employment benefits. VVAW fought for amnesty for war resisters, including vets with bad discharges. VVAW has supported Gulf War veterans in their struggles with Gulf War Syndrome and depleted uranium (DU) ammunition.

The current negative attacks against VVAW are an attack on the whole anti-war movement and must be countered.

Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson (cofounders, Military Families Speak Out)
Fran Johns (Military Families Speak Out)
Ron Kovic (Vietnam veteran, "Born on the 4th of July")
W.D. Ehrhart, Ph.D. (poet, writer, teacher)
John Ketwig (Vietnam veteran, "And a Hard Rain Fell")
G. David Curry, Ph.D. ("Sunshine Patriots")
Annie Bailey (former regional coordinator, VVAW)
John Lindquist (former national coordinator, VVAW)
Ed Damato (former national coordinator, VVAW)
Dave "Buzz" Doyle (Gulf War I veteran)
Joe Bangert (WSI testifier, DCIII and more)(JOHN F'N KERRY'S GOOD BUD AND SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED ON KERRY'S CAMPAIGN FOR 35 YEARS, INCLUDING 04)
Orlando Tizon, Ph.D. (Torture Abolition and Survivors
Support Coalition International (TASSC)*)
Sister Alice Zachmann (SSND, TASSC*),
Harold Nelson, Ph.D. (TASSC*, Korean Era veteran)
Yoomi Jeong (Korea Truth Commission*)
Jeff Stack (Mid-MO Fellowship of Reconciliation coordinator*)
Carl Davidson, (Chicagoans Against War & Injustice,* former national secretary of SDS)
Chukia Lawton (nurse, activist) Richard Stacewicz, Ph.D. ("Winter Soldiers: Oral History of VVAW")
Jane Fonda (actor, activist)

This is from VVAW's Website, less anyone doubt that Hanoi Jane did not support the VVAW and was NOT associated and with John (The Snake) Kerry.

The VVAW is still going strong, only now it has targeted the War in Afganistan and Iraq and not only has it helped organize the IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against War) but is actively supporting them.

[freema]

The left hasn't really evolved much since the sixties. Thank God the right has....

[Interesting Times]

Nice find. Fonda was also the "Honorary National Coordinator" and primary fundraiser for the VVAW's Winter Soldier Investigation in early 1971. See the Time Line at WinterSoldier.com for more...

[pandoraou812]

My feelings exactly!!!

[Nuc1]

Is it too late to put her in front of a firing squad? What treason. And our Republic, too weak to defend itself took no action against her, as the Supreme Court of the day in other cases, found that treason was protected speech. If this Republic fails the 60s were responsible.

[cricket]

Substitute "Vietnam" for "Iraq" and she doesn't sound much different than many Democrats today.

Think that should be. . .any Democrats today. . .given that Joe Lieberman is now an Independent. . .and Zell; well; he is a Democrat of the 'Old Mold'. . .so to speak. . .an animal, altogether a different color than today's Pelosi/Dean/Gore/Clinton/Kerry. . .murthaProgressive. . . Democrats. . .

[Mr.Smorch]

Some things never change. The RATs were treasonous, before treason was cool.....

Thank you Rush for the bumper sticker!

[phoenix0468]

WAS?!? My question remains; why the hell is she allowed to live in this country?

[Nuc1]

"May she and her kind, rot in the lowest depths of hell..."

IMHO, you are too kind. Their actions killed tens of thousands of our soldiers and millions of SE Asians. And they walk around with great pride and congratulate themselves on how they "made a difference". Can hell be enough punishment for this?

[devolve]

[potlatch]

[seasoned traditionalist]

Nice find. Fonda was also the "Honorary National Coordinator" and primary fundraiser for the VVAW's Winter Soldier Investigation in early 1971. See the Time Line at WinterSoldier.com for more.

Thanks. Appreciate the heads up, but I've got so much "stuff" on Fonda/Kerry/VVAW, etc., to fill this web site, left over from 04 when I was working with other Nam (as well as Scott Swett from Winter Soldier) to help expose "The Snake."

Besides, every time I get started with that issue, my BP jumps about 30 points and I'm "forced" to "control" it with a few adult beverages. lol

God Bless.

[elcid1970]

Why is she allowed to live, period?

Hey thanks Admin Moderator for standing up for Jane Fonda!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thanks to Nixon
the lies of Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane
are being told again.
And our military are being slandered in Gitmo, Iraq and Afghanistan

Hanoi Kerry and War Crimes in Vietnam

Hanoi Kerry went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971
to accuse the United States military
of committing massive numbers of war crimes in Vietnam.

Too bad that because Nixon failed to uphold the law,
we are still stuck with Hanoi Jane and Hanoi Kerry.
If Nixon hadn't caved into the minority anti-war crowd
and listened to the Silent Majority
Hanoi Jane AND Hanoi Kerry
would have been prosecuted for their treason in the 70's,
while Nixon was still President.

Keep in mind that Nixon was directly involved in Viet Nam,
as Vice President, going back to at least 1955.

26 Sep 1945 - The first death of an American serviceman in Vietnam occurred.
OSS (Office of Special Operations) Major (Lieutenant Colonel) A. Peter Dewey
was killed in action by the Communist Vietminh near Hanoi.
May 1950 President Harry S Truman authorised $10 million in aid to the French for their war in Viet Nam.
By January 1951, $150 million had been given in aid.
1953-61 Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th US President
1953-61 Richard M. Nixon Vice President
1953 - The US is supporting the French in the amount of $1 billion per year--
33% of all US foreign aid--which is 80% of the total cost to the
. US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles (under Eisenhower) first voices the 'Domino Theory':
if one country in Southeast Asia falls to the Communists, they will all fall, one by one.

12 Feb 55 - President Eisenhower's administration sends 1st 350 U.S. advisers to South Vietnam
to train the South Vietnamese Army

8 Jun 56 - The first American of record to die in Vietnam
under the Eisenhower and Nixon administration
was Air Force Tech Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr.
His son, Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, died in Vietnam Sep 7, 1965.
8 Jun 56 Has been formally recognized by the Pentagon as the first American officially to die in that war.

5 Sep 56 - President Eisenhower tells a news conference that the French are
"involved in a hopelessly losing war in Indochina" 1956 The US believed in that Ho Chi Minh would have won any election held in Viet Nam and used their influence over the government of the State of Viet Nam to ensure that the election was not held



From a Must Visit Site
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About Vietnam

The Vietnam war was the longest in our nation's history.
1st American advisor was killed on June 08, 1956,
and the last casualties in connection with the war occurred on May 15, 1975, during the Mayaquez incident. Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75,000 permanently disabled. Officially there are still 1,991 Americans unaccounted for from SE Asia.

Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning. The brave young men and women who fought that war paid an awful price of blood, pain and suffering. As it is said: "ALL GAVE SOME ... SOME GAVE ALL"
The Vietnam war was not lost on the battlefield. No American force in ANY other conflict fought with more determination or sheer courage than the Vietnam Veteran.  For the first time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral will to win. They were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, most neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers.  And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations because they were more interested in a story than the truth! It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR.

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You can read it online right now.

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