It was my mistake and I have paid and continue to pay a heavy price for it.Īlso Read: Megyn Kelly Fires Back at Jane Fonda: 'She Has No Business Lecturing Anyone' (Video) It is possible that it was a set up, that the Vietnamese had it all planned. (I didn’t know yet that among the photographers there were some Japanese.) Please, you can’t let them be published.” I was assured it would be taken care of. planes.” I pleaded with him, “You have to be sure those photographs are not published. It’s going to look like I was trying to shoot down U.S. I got up, and as I started to walk back to the car with the translator, the implication of what had just happened hit me. I hardly even thought about where I was sitting. It all had nothing to do with where I was sitting.
Here is my best, honest recollection of what happened: someone (I don’t remember who) led me towards the gun, and I sat down, still laughing, still applauding. What happened next was something I have turned over and over in my mind countless times. And then she made the gun-site mistake:Įveryone was laughing and clapping, including me, overcome on this, my last day, with all that I had experienced during my 2 week visit. She was exhausted, and emotional at this realization, she said.
She added that she and the North Vietnamese sang songs to each other in gestures of good faith - hers was written by South Vietnamese anti-war students, she said, and the one by the North Vietnamese soldiers included the lines, “All men are created equal they are given certain rights among these are life, Liberty and Happiness.” She said she was struck by the fact that the communist soldiers “celebrate the same words Americans do.”Īlso Read: 'Jane Fonda in Five Acts' Film Review: Doc Explores the Many Lives of the Actress-Activist There were also many photographers (and perhaps journalists) gathered about, many more than I had seen all in one place in Hanoi. When we arrived at the site of the anti-aircraft installation (somewhere on the outskirts of Hanoi), there was a group of about a dozen young soldiers in uniform who greeted me. It was not unusual for Americans who visited North Vietnam to be taken to see Vietnamese military installations and when they did, they were always required to wear a helmet like the kind I was told to wear during the numerous air raids I had experienced. backed the South Vietnamese in hopes of stopping the spread of communism.) Fonda wrote: (The North Vietnamese were communists, and the U.S. She said on her site that many people visited North Vietnam during the war - “journalists, diplomats, peace activists, professors, religious leaders and Vietnam Veterans themselves” - in hopes of ending the war. I have talked about this numerous times on national television and in my memoirs, ‘My Life So Far ,’ but clearly, it needs to be repeated.” “I want to, once again, explain how that came about. “There is one thing that happened while in North Vietnam that I will regret to my dying day - I allowed myself to be photographed on a Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun,” Fonda wrote on her website in 2011. The “gun photo,” as Kelly described it, is a shot of Fonda posing in a helmet on a Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Kelly, a former Fox News host, said Fonda “called our P.O.W.s ‘hypocrites and liars’ and referred to their torture as ‘understandable,'” and said that she “had to apologize years later for that gun picture - but not for the rest of it.”Īlso Read: Jane Fonda, Tessa Thompson Fire Up Women's Respect Rally in Sundance “She posed on an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down our American pilots.”
“Look at her treatment of our military during the Vietnam War, many of our veterans still call her ‘Hanoi Jane’ thanks to her radio broadcasts, which attempted to shame American troops,” Kelly told her NBC audience. On Monday, while addressing her much-criticized question to Fonda about plastic surgery, Kelly said Fonda is in no position to judge anyone because of her actions during Vietnam. But as Megyn Kelly made clear Monday, many Americans aren’t ready to forgive and forget the events of more than 45 years ago. Jane Fonda has offered detailed explanations and apologies for the actions that earned her the nickname “Hanoi Jane” during the Vietnam War.
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