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To: GarySpFc
"I'm sorry, but I do not accept that this has been debunked."

Nothing I can do about that, but see post 15. I also found this on my first attempt, so it's not obscure info. Go to the page to read the backgroung--the man quoted is specifically named as one of those whose paper was turned over. That the names change all the time should tell you something's fishy:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa110399b.htm

There's no disputing that Jane Fonda toured North Vietnam, propagandized on behalf of the communists, and participated in an orchestrated "press conference" with American POWs in 1972. There's no denying that she defamed POWs by whitewashing the Viet Cong's treatment of them and later calling them liars when they spoke out.

But how true are the further allegations in these email rumors? Let's examine their veracity point by point, beginning with the most serious:

Claim: Fonda betrayed POWs by turning over slips of paper they gave her to their captors. POWs were beaten and died as a result.

Status: FALSE. "It's a figment of somebody's imagination," says Ret. Col. Larry Carrigan, whom I reached by phone at his home in Arizona. Carrigan, who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, says he has no idea why this story was attributed to him. "I never met Jane Fonda," he told me. It goes without saying he never handed her a secret message.

He said he did see Jane Fonda once while he was a POW – on film. The occasion was a night when Carrigan and the other 80 or so men he was interned with were called out into the prison courtyard – "the first time we'd been outside under the stars in 5 or 6 years." As the men stood there wondering what was in store for them, a movie projector began whirring behind them. Their captors were showing them footage of Fonda's 1972 visit to Hanoi.

43 posted on 04/20/2005 4:09:36 PM PDT by Darkwolf (Jean Shepherd audio: http://www.flicklives.com/Mass_Back/mass_back.htm)
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To: Darkwolf

It really doesn't matter. Jane Fonda assured the world that our guys were being treated according to the Rules of War when in fact they were being beaten, tortured and killed. She should have been put in chains.


45 posted on 04/20/2005 4:15:39 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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