[Hon]

"What I suspect is more likely is that Kerry went to Paris in March of 1971..."

No, that timeline doesn't fit. Kerry had some public press conference or other while the VVAW delegation was in Paris at that time. I've posted about that before. I'll try to find the citations again.

Anyway, I don't think the Boston Globe reporters would be that misleading. I would bet that Kerry went to Paris very soon after leaving Jamaica.

What this does show is that it is very likely that the VVAW got the idea of going to Paris and meeting with the enemy from Kerry. It was probably his idea for them to go.

[kabar]

No, that timeline doesn't fit. Kerry had some public press conference or other while the VVAW delegation was in Paris at that time. I've posted about that before. I'll try to find the citations again.

Thanks for the clarification. I look forward to seeing the citation. Kerry could have gone there as part of an advance team to set things up a few weeks earlier. In any event, at this point we have no specific information on the dates of Kerry's meeting with the Vietnamese Communists in Paris. Fonda was definitely there at that time per the Holzers book, "Aid and Comfort".

I am not worried as much about the Boston Globe reporters being misleading as I am about Kerry and his chief adviser Meehan.

[Hon]

Yeah, here we go. This is from page 103 of "Home To War" and, AFAIK, the only mention of the VVAW going to Paris in Nicosia's book:

"A major coup was the national press conference the VVAW staged in Washington on March 16 [1971]...

Even [as this was going on] the VVAW had two representatives in Paris...offering their apologies to the North Vietnamese for the genocide that had occurred...in Vietnam.

At the press conference in Washington DC, the VVAW...gave John Kerry an opportunity to speak."

So Kerry was in DC when they sent their first delegation to Paris.