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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: kennedy
No need for all that inconvenient "research" when Photoshop exists.
To: kennedy
I found a pic on
http://pro.corbis.com/ using a search on Fonda and Vietnam. The picture has Fonda attending an anti war rally with Kerry in the background. To go directly to the photo do a search on the photos inventory #: EF001345. Corbis is a free-to-search site and pay-to-download.
62
posted on
02/08/2004 2:31:00 PM PST
by
lake5732
To: WVNan; John Jorsett
I found this one...
63
posted on
02/08/2004 2:33:04 PM PST
by
Dog
To: kennedy
If anyone can find a copy of Creem Magazine (a Detroit Rock n Roll tabloid) from March 1971 (Volume 3, Number 1), there may be some photos in there. They did a story on Winter Soldier. I remember it, used to own it, but have long since lost it. Ebay, anyone?
64
posted on
02/08/2004 2:33:40 PM PST
by
zook
To: kennedy
All this dirt on Kerry is wonderful stuff!
Unfortunately, it won't do a lick of good unless mainstream media starts reporting it and getting it out there for the sheep to see.
Which, of course, they won't.
65
posted on
02/08/2004 2:35:11 PM PST
by
ItsOurTimeNow
("By all that we hold dear on this Earth I bid you stand, men of the West!")
To: lake5732
Yeah, that sure looks like his goofy face in the background directly over her head, but it is difficult to be sure. It could be any one of a hundred different goofy looking guys.
66
posted on
02/08/2004 2:36:24 PM PST
by
kennedy
To: lake5732
I see it ......but can't make out Kerry it is to dark.
67
posted on
02/08/2004 2:38:52 PM PST
by
Dog
To: KQQL
Great pix.
68
posted on
02/08/2004 2:39:47 PM PST
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: lake5732
Sorry, forgot to mention on the
http://pro.corbis.com/ site to click on the word: historical on the bar running near the top of the page first and then search using: EF001345. That should work.
69
posted on
02/08/2004 2:40:14 PM PST
by
lake5732
To: kennedy
Kerry is too narcissistic for there NOT to be a picture with Jane Fonda. I am sure HIS copy is in deep storage and the rats are praying that it is the ONLY copy.
70
posted on
02/08/2004 2:40:37 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Man rises to greatness if greatness is expected of him)
To: Dog
Post #63: AWESOME!
71
posted on
02/08/2004 2:42:15 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Man rises to greatness if greatness is expected of him)
To: kennedy
Democrats already have it out there!!!
Here
To: zook
If anyone can find a copy of Creem Magazine (a Detroit Rock n Roll tabloid) from March 1971 (Volume 3, Number 1), there may be some photos in there. They did a story on Winter Soldier.
see http://creemmagazine.com/ArchivePages/1971_03.html
73
posted on
02/08/2004 2:45:49 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Man rises to greatness if greatness is expected of him)
To: kennedy
I remember when Hanoi Jane went to suck up to our enemy, and I remember it because I was in the Air Force and in Asia at the time. A group of us were sitting around the barracks one night and someone asked, rhetorically, what should be done to her, try her for treason, or what? I remember one guy said, "Nah, she'd play that to the hilt. What we need to do is f**k her and then kill her." I don't recall that there was any outrage over the suggestion.
To: lake5732
You can see him there. Kind of blurry - of course the dims will say that's no him.
75
posted on
02/08/2004 2:52:52 PM PST
by
raybbr
(My 1.4 cents - It used to be 2 cents, but after taxes - you get the idea.)
To: nwrep
Look at post 63......is that the same guy?
77
posted on
02/08/2004 3:00:48 PM PST
by
Dog
To: Dog
Yeah, same traitors.
78
posted on
02/08/2004 3:02:13 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Man rises to greatness if greatness is expected of him)
To: nwrep
Looks like the same person..
79
posted on
02/08/2004 3:02:20 PM PST
by
Dog
To: Dog
Yes, it is Al Hubbard, fmr. Air Force Captain who also participated in the anti-war demonstration with Kerry the next day (April 19, 1971).
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posted on
02/08/2004 3:05:27 PM PST
by
nwrep
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