Jane Fonda - HONORING A TRAITOR
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Jane Fonda - HONORING A TRAITOR
| Wed, 03-10-2004 - 12:01pm |
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Edited 3/10/2004 3:10 pm ET ET by pravda123
Edited 3/10/2004 3:10 pm ET ET by pravda123
| Wed, 03-10-2004 - 12:01pm |
SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a
cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking
little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?"
and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent
captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their
sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat.
At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the
shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and
handed him the little pile of papers. Three men died from the subsequent
beatings."<
>"The most serious accusations in the piece quoted above -- that Fonda turned over slips of paper furtively given her by American POWS to the North Vietnamese and that several POWs were beaten to death as a result -- are proveably untrue. Those named in the inflammatory e-mail categorically deny the events they supposedly were part of.
"It's a figment of somebody's imagination," says Ret. Col. Larry Carrigan, one of the servicemen mentioned in the 'slips of paper' incident. Carrigan was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and did spend time in a POW camp. He has no idea why the story was attributed to him. "I never met Jane Fonda."
The tale about a defiant serviceman who spit at Jane Fonda and is severely beaten as a result is often attributed to Air Force pilot Jerry Driscoll. He has repeatedly stated on the record that it did not originate with him. "<
>"In fact, Fonda carried home letters from many American POWs to their families upon her return from North Vietnam, and rumors that a POW was beaten to death when he refused to meet with her were nothing more than rumors"<
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