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The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'
NewsMax ^
| February 8, 2004
| Staff
Posted on 02/08/2004 12:31:03 PM PST by kennedy
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM ESTThe 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."
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; fonda; hanoijane; johnkerry; kerry; kerryrecord; neverforget; operationraw; vvaw
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To: FreedomPoster
A possibility for finding same:
Music Library at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/mux/printjournals.htm#C Creem (784.05CR)
Now, who can we get to dash over there? Any takers for this yet?
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posted on
02/11/2004 9:03:07 AM PST
by
smith288
(http://www.ejsmithweb.com/FR/JohnKerry/)
To: mikeb704
The flag on that bumper sticker needs to be replaced with the hammer and sickle flag.
282
posted on
02/11/2004 12:39:53 PM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: kennedy; Registered
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posted on
02/11/2004 12:42:53 PM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
We have a verified winner in this photo!
284
posted on
02/11/2004 12:45:12 PM PST
by
smith288
(http://www.ejsmithweb.com/FR/JohnKerry/)
To: angkor; kennedy; kristinn; Angelwood; Doctor Raoul
Someone ought to head over to the George Washington University library and check out their archive of Quicksilver Times. Anybody up for this research?
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posted on
02/11/2004 12:45:50 PM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: smith288
Registered deserves the credit, not me.
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posted on
02/11/2004 12:51:20 PM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: KQQL
this is truly a photo of a fool being used by the enemy
287
posted on
02/11/2004 12:53:46 PM PST
by
The Wizard
(Democrats are treasonous)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
IS THAT PIC FOR REAL?
288
posted on
02/11/2004 1:30:53 PM PST
by
KQQL
(@)
To: smith288
Haven't seen anyone. Need to post it in the IL forum space.
289
posted on
02/11/2004 7:26:59 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
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To: MamaLucci
Here's the photo of the arrest As for a still of the toke photo, it has disappeared along with the video.
Thanks for the photo of the arrest, I guess I didn't realize that was the arrest photo,
heres the picture of the toke from kerry during Peter Paul and Mary's singing Puff the Magic Dragon
I saw that posted on here today. By the way, Puff the magic Dragon is not about smoking marijuana I found out. The writers of the song are completely offended when people make that implication. They say what kind of a sick person would write a childrens song with drug references.
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posted on
02/13/2004 5:54:54 AM PST
by
GROOVY
To: GROOVY
They say what kind of a sick person would write a childrens song with drug references.
Um...Pervert Pete Yarrow, from Peter,Paul and Mary?
FYI:(Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, served a three-month jail term in 1970 after pleading guilty to taking immoral liberties with a 14 year-old girl.)
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:50:43 AM PST
by
MamaLucci
(President Bill Clinton met with a 20 year old white house intern more than with his CIA Director...)
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