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The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'
NewsMax ^
| February 8, 2004
| Staff
Posted on 02/08/2004 12:31:03 PM PST by kennedy
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM ESTThe 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."
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; fonda; hanoijane; johnkerry; kerry; kerryrecord; neverforget; operationraw; vvaw
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To: nmh
I think the picture of Kerry with RAMSEY CLARK would be a great picture. Ramsey Clark is the total lunatic who said Bush should be impeached.
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posted on
02/08/2004 1:16:14 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
(The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
To: kennedy
42
posted on
02/08/2004 1:27:25 PM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com.)
To: MaineVoter2002
**I heard that Anti-Vietnam War Kerry somehow (probably not purposely) lead the VC to what resulted in McCain's capture. Is this true? Are there an links to this story?**
I wasn't aware of this and would appreciate knowing if it is true.
43
posted on
02/08/2004 1:29:23 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: hole_n_one; kennedy
Would the Veterans against John Kerry have a copy of the Jane Fonda/John Kerry picture?
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posted on
02/08/2004 1:31:46 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: CyberAnt
45
posted on
02/08/2004 1:33:30 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: CyberAnt; Alamo-Girl
.
RAMSEY hanoi-saddam CLARKE
HILLARY hanoi-saddam RODHAM
WILLIAM hanoi-saddam CLINTON
WALTER hanoi-saddam CRONKITE
JOHN hanoi-saddam KERRY =
Enemies of the State, all.
.
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posted on
02/08/2004 1:40:42 PM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com.)
To: kennedy
From
this very, very long article in the Chicago Tribune, December 4, 2003, Detroit and Philadelphia newspaper archives may be a good place to look.
Also some books:
"The Turning: A history of Vietnam Veterans Against the War," authored by Andrew E. Hunt (1999),
"Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement," by Gerald Nicosia (2001),
"Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement," Melvin Small (1994), might have photos in them. Will check later this evening to see if any are available at local libraries...
To: Jim Noble
Did he do her?
Didn't everyone?
49
posted on
02/08/2004 1:42:22 PM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: kennedy
50
posted on
02/08/2004 1:45:04 PM PST
by
tdadams
To: ALOHA RONNIE
Thanks for the ping!
To: MaineVoter2002
I heard that Anti-Vietnam War Kerry somehow (probably not purposely) lead the VC to what resulted in McCain's capture.I doubt this.
If I recall correctly, McCain was fished out of a lake in Hanoi after being shot down in 1967 or so. The VC would have had no part in this, and Kerry didn't go VVAW until the early '70s.
There appears to be plenty of stuff to hang Kerry on without resorting to refutable items.
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posted on
02/08/2004 1:54:14 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(...and Freedom tastes of Reality)
To: kennedy
ANY photo of him is to be feared.
I suppose he can't help what he looks like, but if I had teeth like that I would punch myself in the face until they were gone.
To: Salvation
John McCain was shot down in Oct.1967 while targeting a power plant in Hanoi...
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posted on
02/08/2004 1:58:07 PM PST
by
donozark
To: kennedy
no pictures of kerry and dukakis????
no picutres of kerry and hanoi jane????
with all this panick, this is the one they call "most electable" of their group????
Paging Dr. Dean....
To: longtermmemmory
Just found this one of Jane Fonda only -- it gives a reference on the dates and publication for the Jane Fonda/John Kerry photos.
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posted on
02/08/2004 2:04:18 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: kennedy
Think the picture is in an old National Review? I know someone with stacks going back decades.
57
posted on
02/08/2004 2:06:01 PM PST
by
petercooper
(Tone down the garbage, the mean-mouthing, the tearing down of your neighbor and being so pompous.)
To: tdadams
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
58
posted on
02/08/2004 2:11:14 PM PST
by
jigsaw
(Freeper Fidelis)
To: mikeb704
nice bumper sticker!
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posted on
02/08/2004 2:13:01 PM PST
by
VOA
To: ChadGore
Can you post that collage over here?
Thanks!
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posted on
02/08/2004 2:14:19 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
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