Jane Fonda: ‘I
Don’t Regret Going to Vietnam’ — ‘I’m Proud That I Went’
by Jeff Poor 16 Oct 2017
Last week on BBC’s “Hardtalk,” actress Jane Fonda
was asked by show host Stephen Sackur if inside her she had a “sense of
regret” for her 1972 visit to North Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam
War.
Fonda denied having any regret about the visit itself and
argued she had justifications for the trip.
“I don’t regret going to Vietnam,” she said. “The United States was bombing the dikes in North Vietnam — earthen
dikes in the Red River Delta. If the dikes had given way, according to Henry Kissinger,
somewhere around 2 million people could have died of famine and drowning. And
we were bombing, and it wasn’t being talked about. And I thought, ‘I’m a
celebrity. Maybe if I go, and I bring back evidence.’ And it did stop two
months after I got back, so I’m proud that I went. It changed my life all for
the good.”
The part she said she had regretted was appearing with
the anti-aircraft and looking that she was against American soldiers and
“siding with the enemy,” which she said wasn’t the case.
“The thing that I regret is that on my last day there, I
made the mistake of going to a ceremony at an anti-aircraft gun,” she added.
“It wasn’t being used. There were no airplanes or anything like that. There was
a ceremony. I was asked to sing and people were laughing and so forth and I was
led, and I sat down. And then I got up and as I walked away, I realized, ‘Oh my
gosh. It’s going to look like I am against my own country’s soldiers and siding
with the enemy, which is the last thing in the world that was true.”
Let’s connect the dots:
Vietnam
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at
Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the
Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Newton N. Minow
is a senior counsel at
Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the
Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
William M. Daley
is a member of the
Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank).
United States
was a funder for the
Center for
Strategic and International Studies (think tank), and supported
South Vietnam in the
Vietnam War.
James S.
Crown is a member of the
Commercial Club of Chicago, and the vice
chairman for the
Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the
Commercial Club of Chicago, a trustee at the
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank), and was a lifetime trustee at the
Aspen Institute
(think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the
Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is a
friend of
Michael Douglas.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the
Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and a friend of
Henry
A. Kissinger.
Henry A. Kissinger is a friend of Michael R. Bloomberg, a trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (think tank), a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a
lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
United States
supported South Vietnam in the Vietnam War, and was a funder for the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank).
Theodore G.
Osius III was a senior fellow at the
Center
for Strategic and International Studies (think tank), and is a U.S.
ambassador for
Vietnam.
United States
supported
South Vietnam in the
Vietnam War, and was a funder for the
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank).
Frances
Fragos Townsend is a trustee at the
Center
for Strategic and International Studies (think tank), and a commentator for
CNN.
Walter Isaacson
was a chairman & CEO for
CNN, is
a director at the
Bloomberg Family
Foundation, and the president & CEO for the
Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Ted
Turner is the founder of
CNN, a co-chairman
for the
Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), and was married to
Jane Fonda
A.K.A.
Hanoi Jane.
Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane
United States
supported
South Vietnam in the
Vietnam War, and was a funder for the
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank).
Sam
Nunn is the chairman emeritus for the
Center
for Strategic and International Studies (think tank), the co-chairman &
CEO for the
Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), and a director at the
Bloomberg
Family Foundation.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the
Bloomberg Family Foundation, the
Aspen Institute (think tank),
and the
Center for Strategic and
International Studies (think tank).
United States
supported
South Vietnam in the
Vietnam War, and was a funder for the
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank).
Warren E. Buffett
is a trustee & major donor for the
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, an advisory board member for
Everytown for Gun Safety, and an
adviser for the
Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of
Everytown
for Gun Safety, the founder of the
Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and a friend of
Henry
A. Kissinger.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the
Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of
Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Michael Douglas
is a director at the
Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of
George Soros.
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the
Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of
CNN, and was married to
Jane
Fonda A.K.A.
Hanoi Jane.
Jane
Fonda was married to
Ted Turner,
and
Tom Hayden.
Tom
Hayden was married to
Jane Fonda,
and an editorial board member for
The
Nation.
Andrea
Batista Schlesinger is an editorial board member for
The Nation, a deputy director, U.S. programs for the
Open Society Foundations, an executive
director for the
Drum Major Institute
for Public Policy, and a senior adviser to deputy mayor for
New York (NY).
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the
Open
Society Foundations, a friend of
Michael
Douglas, and was the chairman for the
Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the
Drum Major Institute for Public Policy,
and the
Aspen Institute (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the
Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a friend of
Henry
A. Kissinger, and was the mayor of
New
York (NY).
James S.
Crown is the vice chairman for the
Aspen Institute (think tank), and
a member of the
Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the
Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member
of the
Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank).
William M. Daley
is a trustee at the
Center for Strategic
and International Studies (think tank), and a member of the
Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the
Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at
Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow
is a member of the
Commercial Club of
Chicago, and a senior counsel at
Sidley
Austin LLP.
Joseph
McLaughlin is a senior counsel at
Sidley
Austin LLP, and a director at the
American
Council on Germany.
Uproar as German Lawmaker Proposes Observance of Muslim
Public Holidays (PAST RESEARCH ON THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY & HENRY
KISSINGER)
Monday, October 16, 2017
Henry A. Kissinger is a director at the American Council on Germany, a friend
of Michael R. Bloomberg, a trustee
at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Henrietta Holsman
Fore is a trustee at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (think tank), and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Michael Douglas
is a director at the
Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of
George Soros.
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the
Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of
CNN, and was married to
Jane
Fonda A.K.A.
Hanoi Jane.
Jane
Fonda was married to
Ted Turner,
and
Tom Hayden.
Tom
Hayden was married to
Jane Fonda,
and an editorial board member for
The
Nation.
Andrea
Batista Schlesinger is an editorial board member for
The Nation, a deputy director, U.S. programs for the
Open Society Foundations, an executive
director for the
Drum Major Institute
for Public Policy, and a senior adviser to deputy mayor for
New York (NY).
Margaret A.
Hamburg was a health commissioner for
New
York (NY), and a VP for the
Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the
Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of
CNN, and was married to
Jane
Fonda A.K.A.
Hanoi Jane.
Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane
Several requests
from students and other visitors have asked if the photos depicting Jane Fonda
sitting on an NVA anti-aircraft gun were really her or not. The answer to
this question is YES. Jane Fonda
has expressed her regrets for having her picture taken while sitting on the
anti-aircraft gun and for the pain that her action has caused many American
Veterans.
Jane Fonda sitting on a seat of an anti-aircraft gun.
Jane Fonda looking admiringly at an NVA gun crew.
Jane Fonda applauding an NVA anti-aircraft gun
crew. These guns were used to shoot down American planes and contributed
to the deaths of American Airmen.
Notice the anti-aircraft shells that are ready to be used
to shoot down American planes by Jane Fonda's foot.
Close up of Jane Fonda wearing a steel pot from the
Communist NVA. gun crew.
Color photo of Jane Fonda sitting in the gun seat.
Jane Fonda smiling with NVA gun crew.
Jane Fonda laughing with an NVA gun crew.