I knew it was a bad century but jeez...not that bad.
Mary Jo Kopechne has got to be high up on that list.
I'm sure that someone else will post this faster than me because my computer sucks, but here it is anyway:
http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp
http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp claims the Driscoll incident never happened.
The story about handing her peices of paper have been debunked. But she did visit prisons where American's were held. I do not know about the others.
Still, my Christian values and the teachings of Christ prevent me from saying or wishing certain things on this unspeakably vial heap of decaying waste of a human being/animal.
The century, as in 1900's? This must be as slow as molasses when making its way on the web. It's already 2006.
Well it doesn't say what kind of women.....
Walters had a 1999 special listing: Actresses, comediennes, and singers: Janis Joplin, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Katharine Hepburn, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Madonna, Bette Midler, Rosie ODonnell, Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Jessye Norman, Maria Callas, Marilyn Monroe, Celine Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Marian Anderson, Greta Garbo, Lauren Bacall ...
Artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. Photographers Margaret Bourke-White and Dorothea Lange. Dancers Martha Graham and Isadora Duncan. Poet Maya Angelou. Writer Ann Landers.
Sports figures "Babe" Didrickson, Gertrude Ederle, Sonja Henie, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Nadia Comenici.
Aviator Amelia Earhart and astronaut Lt. Eileen Collins. Scientist Marie Curie. Fashion designer Coco Chanel. Executive Katharine Graham. The created figure of Rosie the Riveter.
Women known for their activism or political involvements: Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. Magazine, Rosa Parks, Margaret Sanger, Jane Addams, Ann Richards, Alice Paul, Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Marian Wright Edelman, Anita Hill (the transcript calls her Anita Thomas at one point!), Mother Teresa, Margaret Mead, Madeleine Albright.
First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Betty Ford and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Princess Diana. Heads of state Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher.
And, though she professes embarrassment to be included: Barbara Walters.
LINK: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/lists/a/walters_100_wmn.htm
We will NEVER forget !!
Barbara Walters? Who gives a rats ass what she thinks.