The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'

NewsMax ^ | February 8, 2004 | Staff

[kennedy]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM EST

The 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."

[freekitty]

Hillarys Lovely Legs found a picture. It is posted here on FR. The dreaded picture has been found.

[SLB]

There are three or four copies of "The New Soldier" on ebay. Price is up to $405.00.

[marty60]

Good Grief....Looks like a meeting at alqaida. The only thing missing is Osama.

[HELLRAISER II]

TRAITOROUS BIT*H!

[GROOVY]

A couple of weeks ago CeCe Connolly reported for the WaPo that when John F'n Kerry attended a party with old friend Pete Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary fame, he pretended to be smoking a joint.

I hate to admit that I watched Keith Olberman, but I saw that clip on his countdown show too..

[maica]

President Bush does not get intimidated. Ask Osama and Saddam. McAullife, Kerry, and the Clintons better accept that fact.

W does not call people names, he acts.

[maica]

McCain was captured before Kerry was in the Navy.

[smith288]

[Ciexyz]

Hanoi John bump.

[MamaLucci]

I hate to admit that I watched Keith Olberman...

Admitting you have a problem is the first step....:)

On the video of JFKerry pretending to toke,it was a 2 hour story,
then it disappeared from the airwaves never to be seen again.
Had that been President Bush or any other republican,
they would STILL be playing it.

[GROOVY]

On the video of JFKerry pretending to toke,it was a 2 hour story, then it disappeared from the airwaves never to be seen again.

I still think it would be great to have a still photo of that. It was on the January 15th show:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3978790/

Also From Douglass Brinkley I read:

Although it is a little talked about fact, John Kerry was arrested in Concord, Mass. for protesting the war and there is a picture of him being escorted by police with his hands behind his head in my book.

I would be interested in that picture too.

[MamaLucci]

Here's the photo of the arrest

As for a still of the toke photo, it has disappeared along with the video.

[Tamzee]

Dunno if he can distance himself... I'm just amazed that these Fonda remarks aren't better known after all these years!

[Redbob]

Great graphics!

You gotta slap that on the back of a 14-year-old Volvo, though!

[Redbob]

"...Detroit and Philadelphia newspaper archives may be a good place to look."

If we're going to find the Kerry photo we want in newspaper archives, we'll have to get there soon, before the Kerry supporters do.
If they haven't already.

[MeekOneGOP]

Will do !

I just checked and not in my mail yet. She's probably inundated with requests ! lol ! ...

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you ! I have made note of that !!

[Charles Martel]

...whoa! look at those intense set props!

No kidding... I think parts of Fail Safe might've been filmed there, back in '64 (continuing the Fonda riff...). ;-)

[FBD]