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To: Registered
Please let us know if this photo is real, before we start circulating it. If it is, please provide the source for the photo.

From a liberal left site, I found a little more information about Jane and the VVAW connection:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Narrative/Crandell_Winter.html

"Planning the Winter Soldier Investigation
The Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI) grew out of the moral outrage of American soldiers who had committed acts in response to official orders and policies that were criminal in nature.
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WSI began as a project of CCI, supported by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) cofounder Jan Crumb, attorney Mark Lane, and actress Jane Fonda. The object of Winter Soldier was to take the all-too-available atrocity stories coming out of Vietnam and show their direct relationship to American policies.
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The Citizen's Commission of Inquiry had contacted VVAW to find witnesses to atrocities. After months of increasingly disharmonious work together, VVAW decided that the public event that was growing out of gathering this testimony would have more credibility as an all-veteran project. Vietnam Veterans Against the War took over the Winter Soldier Investigation in late 1970.

Preparing for the Winter Soldier Investigation
A six-member steering committee for WSI was composed of three national office leaders
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The steering committee set up a collective in a house on the industrial east side of Detroit with the help of Catholic antiwar activists. Mark Lane and Jane Fonda contributed both their fund-raising talents and their perspectives as national figures who understood media. The gathering of testimony had begun under the aegis of CCI the previous summer, and it took a month-and-a-half of on-site planning to put the conference together.

The support of antiwar celebrities was essential. Jane Fonda and her agent, Steve Jaffe, created a series of benefit concerts, including "Acting in Concert for Peace," in which Fonda, Dick Gregory, Donald Sutherland, and Barbara Dane performed, and two musical concerts given by Graham Nash and David Crosby (of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young), and by folk song legend Phil Ochs."

143 posted on 02/11/2004 1:33:47 PM PST by FR_addict
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To: FR_addict
I don't think so. But you can never be too sure. I get stuff like this all the time.
146 posted on 02/11/2004 1:36:28 PM PST by Registered
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