The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'

NewsMax ^ | February 8, 2004 | Staff

[kennedy]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM EST

The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'

Democratic Party officials are hoping that no photographs exist of a well-covered Vietnam War protest where soldier-hating actress Jane Fonda and Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, then and up-and-coming member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, railed against U.S. war policy from the back of the same pick-up truck.

"Scores of newspaper articles about the march" exist, according to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley.

Dubbed "Operation RAW" [Rapid American Withdrawal], the Sept. 1970 march featured Fonda, Kerry and a motley band of anti-war vets in an eighty-six mile trek from Morristown, New Jersey and Valley Forge, Pennsylvania - two Revolutionary War sites.

According to "Tour of Duty," Brinkley's book on Kerry's war years, when the protesters reached their destination they were treated to Fonda standing on the bed of a pick-up truck, where she "denounced the Nixon administration as a beehive for cold blooded killers."

"Marijuana was in the air," said Brinkley. "Skinny dippers frolicked in the Delaware River. . . [The group's] long hair, ripped jeans, army surplus store canteens, and toy guns gave the VVAW the look of a ragtag band of Haight-Ashbury refugees. . .

"Along the marching route, veterans would shout out phrases like 'Kill him!' and 'Cut his belly open' for dramatic effect," said Brinkley.

Others who spoke that day proclaimed the U.S. guilty of "genocide" in Southeast Asia.

Kerry followed Fonda's Nixon denunciation with a rousing anti-war address that made him "the new leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War," Brinkley said. "From Valley Forge onward, [Kerry] was a committed anitwar activist. . ."

From there, Kerry went on to Detroit to organize a particularly offensive bit of guerrilla theater dubbed "The Winter Soldier Investigation," where Fonda presided as U.S. war atrocities were chronicled by "soldiers" who some later suspected were impostors.

After Winter Soldier, writes Brinkley, "Fonda personally adopted [Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War] as her leading cause."

[Liz]

N-i-i-i-c-e find. He's nailed. LOL.

[sauropod]

Heh. Saving that one.

[sauropod]

They sure would on my car < get the joke!>

[sauropod]

A little tasker for you.

[jetson]

Oh Barbarella....How shapely your rear and how numb your mind.

[Chi-townChief]

They really need to find one of Ketchup Boy burning a flag.

[onyx]

Excellent, Meek. I like that.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

John Kerry walks with his hands behind his head on May 31, 1971, as police escort veterans and supporters from the Lexington Green.

John Kerry during a July 6, 1971, appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. After his antiwar testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee, he became a much sought-after guest on late night talk shows.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Good find! This could be even better than the "Dean People Suck" stuff. :D

[LouD]

the birthplace of the Republican Party.

Nope. That would be this schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin.

[ErnBatavia]

I'm coming in from the tail end of this thread (don't want to scroll thru 200+), but my opinion of that fuzzy Kerry bucktooth shot is that his pic was snapped as he was downloading during the "moment of truth"...or as my Aussie buddies would say, " 'Aving a wank"

[FreedomPoster]

lol! Perfect! Nice find.

Hey, y'all, look here - Kerry was FReeped before there were FReepers. See the replied-to post.

[shaggy eel]

,,, yep, a quick fifty off the wrist.

[zip]

Post 86 ping

[zip]

Evil eyes. Actually scary.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you !

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey, thanks for the quote and link to it !

[adakota]

Creem Magazine March 1971:

http://creemmagazine.com/ArchivePages/1971_03.html