Wasn’t Henry Fonda a communist ?
Stupidity runs in the family !!!
In any case, Henry Fonda loved America and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Peter Fonda, his estranged son is not worthy to shine his late father's shoes.
“Communist” — no, Dad was an ardent Dem, but I don’t think he was ever a communist:
Henry Fonda enlisted in the United States Navy to fight in World War II, saying, “I don’t want to be in a fake war in a studio.” Previously, Stewart and he had helped raise funds for the defense of Britain. Fonda served for three years, initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee. He was later commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Navy Presidential Unit Citation. (Wiki)
Fonda was an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party and “an admirer” of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1960, Fonda appeared in a campaign commercial for presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. The ad focused on Kennedy’s naval service during World War II, specifically the famous PT-109 incident. (Wiki)
Peter Fonda, interview w AARP, 2013: “Several years ago a friend of mine sent me a wallet that had belonged to my father,” recalled Fonda, 73, who stars in the new Civil War drama Copperhead. “Inside was an uncashed check from my maternal grandmother and his first voter I.D. And the card had him as a Republican!”
Armed with irrefutable proof, Fonda casually mentioned his dad’s first party affiliation in a conversation with his sister Jane Fonda. “My sister could not and would not believe it,” he laughed. “She had the worst time with that! I figured I’d wait until she really dug herself into a hole, and then I’d drop it on her, because I had the weapon in my hand.”
The elder Fonda’s early affiliation with the Republican Party was not politically motivated, however. It was born of his lifelong affection for Abraham Lincoln.
“My father was a tremendous Lincoln fan. In his study, right above his chair, was a framed block of the first Lincoln postage stamp.” Despite Henry’s early Republican experience, Fonda hastened to add, “He changed parties.”
“Hollowvwerse” — One story goes that, during a political debate with liberal Democrat Henry Fonda, Stewart and Fonda got into a fistfight–which Fonda apparently won. The two were lifelong friends, however, and simply decided to never speak of politics after the incident.
Which is the case in so many families today!
OTOH...Jane and Peter's mother was a mental case ( bipolar, supposedly ), who slit her own throat with a razor blade, whilst she was confined to an insane asylum.
Wasn’t Henry Fonda a communist ?
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Not sure, but Lucille Ball was! “Holly-weird” isn’t a new thing by any means.