In this podcast, Ward Carroll explains how actress Jane Fonda earned the nickname “Hanoi Jane” and why it endures even after all these years. I learned something new by watching this 14-minute video. You might also find the comments after the video interesting…
Some of the comments taken from the hundreds posted on YouTube about this video:
Disturbed47: I’m almost 75 years old, and I thought most of the hate and anger within me had mellowed with age. Then you mention HER and I realized it’s still there at a deep, visceral level…
Thomas Quinn: Ward you have the skill to lay out the facts and let them speak to your listener as they are displayed without any additional coloring. That skill is unparalleled in today’s media. Thank you for a crisp presentation of the behavior of a movie actress that used her notoriety to demean young men following lawful orders in a war they did not create or choose.
Trevor Evans: Disgraceful behavior, by an entitled rich kid. I really don’t see much of a difference between her and Tokyo Rose although Iva Toguri’s broadcasts were silly and not taken seriously by the troops in most cases. What Fonda did was many times more harmful and demoralizing…
Bill Murphy: I’m a Nam Navy Vet in the Gulf on a destroyer guarding the aircraft carriers. Hanoi Jane is what she will always be to those of us who served. And yes, she should have been arrested upon her return, tried and at the very least imprisoned. I have never been or will ever be ashamed to serving our country.
Alan Baxter: I was on one of the carriers when she did her dastardly deed. Prior to her visit we had shut down the North’s air defenses from the sea (mined the harbor), shut down the railroads out of China. During her two-week visit bombing was halted (by White House). With her treasonous visit compete, the bombing returned to FULLY RE-ARMED air defenses! We lost a plane shortly after.
BigJake2061: Thank you for reminding the world what she did. It should never be forgotten. Anytime her name is mentioned these facts should be mentioned.
Random Man: Wow, as a young millennial with family and family friends who served in Vietnam, as well as a bit of a history buff, I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t know how deep her betrayal went.
Your thoughts…?
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I would cut her some slack. I was too young for the war, but not too young to notice how divisive everything was in those days. i started driving about 1975. And, I remember thinking that back when car windows were often rolled down in the summer, I needed to turn down my rock music when I pulled up to a traffic light – because otherwise, some redneck type might start trouble with my music. That’s how it was: even rock music or country music could set some people off. Thank goodness for Willie Nelson and others who managed to bridge that music divide. And, too, I have known and still know some folks – usually very liberal – who know squat about the military. Folks can be duped. And, back during the war, there were folks on both sides of the Viet Nam debate telling lies everyday, but Sunday.
Tom
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its not just the picture she took, thats not the real issue. the real evil she commited was that the GIs that were imprisoned where she was touring, they slipped her a piece of paper to implore her to help them, and she went and showed the guy in charge of the prison the paper. She got GIs killed because of that.
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M d That’s a myth that was proven false.
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And that for me was a horrible mistake on her part. She betrayed all those brave men who were torchered constantly. She had to know what was going to happen to those brave men. I really don’t give a shit about that traitor. I just wonder why our leaders did not punished accordingly.
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Big jake You in my platoon 2061
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So, the wickedness if Ms Fonda far exceeded the evil of Richard Milhouse Nixon? Are all the facts in? about how one man’s political ambitions in 1968 and especially 1972 resulted in a protracted war in SE Asia and the deaths and woundings of thousands of willing – and not-so-willing- Americans?
If anything, Hanoi Jane’s vile, misguided antics served to highlight and SHORTEN the war!
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I was in a Marine infantry company, Mike 3/3 3rd Marine Division in 1968. We were stationed right on the DMZ (Alpha-3) and shelled by North Vietnamese artillery from across the Ben Hai River. Ms Fonda will always be an enemy to me. She supported those trying to kill me.
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I will not speak her name, nor will I listen to her name being spoken. I will simply leave the room. I served 68 – 69 when I was shot. I was a helicopter Gunship pilot.
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IAM A VIETNAM VET..EVERYTIME I HEAR OR SEE HER NAME..I GET ILL..THINKING OF MY FRIENDS THAT I LEFT BEHIND.IN THE NAM..THE WOUNDED, THE DEAD..THIS SICK BITCH..SHOULD HAVE BEEN TRIED.AS A TRAITOR. AND IN PRISONED..FOR EVER…MAKES ME PUKE..
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She makes me sick! She is a traitor and how she was allowed back in the States I’ll never know. At the very least she should be serving life in prison.
Far worse all these companies still promoting her especially Yahoo on FB.
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She was set-up? But she went there and became the Tokyo Rose of Vietnam and continued on in her career. She’s ill now? Many veterans are not here now to be ill, due to her.
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I THINK SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND TRIED FOR TREASON, BECAUSE IT WAS INDEED AN ACT OF TREASONOUS, DEEDS. DISCLOSING POSITIONS OF OUR TROOPS AND ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT ELSE. I’M
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Why should I have to sign into You Tube to view anything on Cherrieswriter?
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That’s because YouTube owned the video and not Cherrieswriter.
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Thank you for the Hanoi Jane article. On April 9, 1967, I was seriously wounded during Operation Junction City. I was a gunner on a 105mm Howitizer that misfired on a charge 2 fire mission while our position was being overrun by NVA. I wound up at the 3rd Surgical Hospital and was operated on for over 8 hours by a remarkable surgeon who was truly ahead of his times. A few days after my initial surgery the 3rd Surgical Hospital received visitors. The first was General Westmoreland and the second, Hanoi Jane’s father, Henry Fonda. Unfortunately, I can barely recall the General’s visit, but remember the General pinning a Purple Heart to my pillow. On the other hand, Henry Fonda, I do recall and to this day still remember his compassion and assuring words of support to this then 20 year old scarred up gunner. Hanoi Jane was such a disgrace and nothing like her father. Henry Fonda’s bedside visit will always be remembered for lifting my spirits when I needed it the most.
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Welcome Home. Very nice. Generations certainly differ and during Vietnam many soldiers faced opposition. I came home twice in 67, first time was on a 30 extension leave. Landed at military near San Francisco. I had a fried there from 25th LRRP. I was in my travel uniform but he took me to town, North Beach and Haight/Asbury. I had no problems, Well one bar asked me to leave. Not because of my uniform. It was a ladies bar. Gay. First for me and I was glad to leave. At 2 other bars, The Condor Club with Carol Doda, Queen of the wWild Brasear, and dowen the where Chris Colt and her twin 44 were appearing, we were welcomed. even set next to the stage and got to unhook a bra. lol. Even Haight/Asbury no problems. Some folks looked at me funny, maybe they thought I was a crazed killer. It was a strange old area. No one bothered me. Next time I came home I was getting out. Had a break in service. In May of 70 I was in the 101st. Somewhere?? near a firebase. I was wounded. taken to doctor at the base. I remember a nice doctor taking care of me and him telling me not to look, I told him I was OK and it didn’t bother me. He told me it bothered him. They hit me up with pain killers/morphine along the way and lost track of things. All a blure helos/twinkling lights. I work up or they woke me up in I think Cam Rahn Laying in a hospital bed. Some General said some things and was pinning a Purple Heart on my pillow. I was pretty out of it. Then off to Japan, another op, then Valley Forge Army Hospital, PA. A great surgeon Frank Stien?? pulled some parts from one place or another for 4 or 5 months the had more rehab at Fort Sam Housten. Then Back to Vietnam. I was a True Believer.
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My husband is a proud Vietnam veteran. Jane Fonda will always be a traitor in our minds. We never watch her on TV or elsewhere.
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I’m a proud Vietnam veteran, I was with the 666 transportation company we were a line haul unit exclusively serving fire bases in I corps for 101st Airborne 52 years ago.
While at a Anti Hanoi Jane gathering in Lexington Ky. Several years ago the young police officers didn’t know why we were against her. After filling them in on the trader b&tch they were honored to be in our company .
Ann Margret always loved her Vietnam boys, I’m sure she has no kind words for Henry’s worthless daughter . Peter was not a patriot either!
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I am a combat vet having served on a riverboat in the Delta 1968-69. I am not sure what the purpose of this video 50 years later. The author has parsed and cherry picked what he wanted the readers to see. Fonda has admitted she used bad judgement, however, the readers should read the Pentagon Papers our government bid from the public for 3 years. We were pulling out of VN and combat had ended in 1973 and the POW’s were released in 73 just a few months after Fonda’s adventure. It really is time to move on.
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67 was when Jane Fonda 1st went to Hanoi. 73 was after Vietnamization. She was a traitor long before our government sold us out. As a true believer I may have been a fool but my 7 years in the infantry and as an advisor to the last hope of South Vietnam, 18th AR
VN Division, I know what she did. Forget and get over it? I went in at 17, Jan of 1965. Vietnam at 18. Finished up at 24 in 1972. Bless you for your service and opinion but I disagree. Do you want open borders? We’ll be debating forever. lol,
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She did not go to Hanoi in 1967. Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 with a vow of “Peace With Honor” and Vietnameseation that started in 1969. My group and the 9th Infantry had all left by early 70. Troops had been reduced from 550,000 to less than 200,000 and we were pulling out because we acknowledged we could not win. Anti War statements were not traitorous; they were to expedite the withdrawal so fewer people would be killed for no reason!
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You read a new article that rehashes old lies and so you renew your hatred. You guys just need something to hate.
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Great article, what she did was unforgettable, her dad (God rest his soul) disowned her and never spoke to her until the day before he died. I heard that she has cancer and I pray that she lingers for a long time. When she dies what I will do on her grave won’t pass for flowers.
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Nope. Who told you that shit? And why did you believe it? And why do you STILL cling to it? Do yourself a favor – grow wiser with age, not just senile.
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Not enough details on how bad she was to P.O.Ws and Nothing ever happened to her
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Did you see this?
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
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I to as a Vietnam veteran, believe she undermines everything freedom stood for. She possibly caused pain and near death of many American prisoners. Thank the lord I was not in her line of site. I along with many others will never forget.
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There is no statute of limitations on traitorous Hanoi Jane. She deserved punishment then and she deserves punishment now.
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I think she should be raped by a well hung bull
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Where is the video?
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within the article
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Something else that’s disgraceful about Jane Fonda.
Both she and her then husband Tom Hayden openly supported radical preacher “Reverend” Jim Jones and his People’s Temple in San Francisco. A psychopathic monster who later presided over the deaths of 900 people in a utopian settlement in Guiana named Jonestown.
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She sure deserves what pain she causes. It seems so long since we had time to do what we wanted to,
I remember we had rest and relaxation in the country for three days.
After catnapping for four hours, I was asked what I wanted to do.
I said, “Let’s go to the orphanage to help in some way.”
When we got there, we could see things weren’t right,
The enemy came through sometimes in the night.
Seeing what happened made me ill,
The enemy could not possibly have been God’s will.
How could one person be so cruel to another?
Especially, when it’s their neighbor, family, or their own mother.
Imagine if you can, seeing a body hanging from a tree, you think it’s a man,
From the mid-section is hanging another body, it appears to be a woman.
As I looked up at the bodies hanging from that tree,
I thought of how Jesus must have suffered for me.
He was beaten and stabbed because he was God’s son.
He was and is in a war, but not with a modern-day gun.
Some of the villager’s bodies were being pulled apart,
Their bodies were still tied to the tree and to the ox.
Some of them were in a pot boiling,
The pot was filled with water and engine oil.
How could one person skin another, alive?
I couldn’t imagine one could be so cruel, much less why.
I thought; this has been some break from the war.
I feel so empty; my mind kept drifting to home, very far away.
I just turned twenty; but I felt so old.
Most of us there were in our twenties; the stress was taking its toll.
Being in a war for some time, we were getting old before our time.
Sometimes, we thought our lives weren’t worth a dime.
I had been in the country for month number five,
Every day I thank God that I was alive.
I had no doubt that I would go to heaven,
If I didn’t make it to month number seven.
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This is conspiracy theory crap that was disprove. Many years ago.
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She is a traitorous bitch.
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Was on lamson 1114 when Hanoi Jane was sitting on a vietnamese anti aircraft Gun and I was in Connecticut when she tried to make a movie and all of the Vietnam veterans showed up and ran her ass out of Connecticut and I haven’t watched anything that she was in or connected to i even stopped watching the Alanta Braves when she married ted Turner and I still have no place in my heart to forgive this Traitor and would still like to see her hung like they used to do with traitors
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New footage and comments I had not seen before…our decisions and action have consequences some lasting a lifetime…therefore I will always know her as Hanoi Jane.
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She should have been tried for treason. Her stunt caused the North Vietnamese to prolong the war which caused many more American casualties.
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I really don’t give a damn. If cowards like bone-spurs lard are glorified, then J.F. don’t mean a thing . An 11-B, 69-70
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We were all lied to but what she did was way beyond just lies, she betrayed every service member every where
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1968, khe Sahn, Dong Ha, Quaing Tri, CuaViet, FB Vandergrif, I often think of these places and the Marines who were with me there. This trollup does not deserve anything more than disdain and contempt.
DOC.
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Still a Communist Traitor Bitch. Luckily, I am liberal in my old age. She can wallow in her filth, and go to Hell. Some rich people think they are different from the rest of us. Money does not make you anything and money does not exempt you from moral responsibility.
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Just a note Vietnam Combat Vet 66-72 HHC 4th 9th Manchu, 25th Inf Div. LRRP, D Trp Air 3/4th CAV. 25th Inf Div. C 1/327th 101st Airborn, A 3/21st Inf, 196th LIB, 23rd Inf Div Americal, MACV Team 87, 43rd RCAT, 18th inf. ARVN
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Phillip. You going to the D Trp 3/4 Cav reunion in Nov
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Not sure. I’m going to the wound center here for treatment and Heart and kidney failurer along with Diabetes screw my travel. I’ve been moving from Washington to Arizona for years but can’t get back to get the rest of my stuff. Lol.
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Vietnam Vet 1968-1970. She did as bad if not worse than the other females in WW2, Korea, etc and should have done max time in prison. She committed treason and should have been punished as others were. She pissed on all who served before, then and now!
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Agreed 👍
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