OK, I have seen the "Hanoi Jane" picture of her in the NVA helmet sitting in the AA gun, and I believe the stories that she gave food and supplies to North Vietnamese people during the war, but I am not sure I am buying the story about the POW who handed here a piece of paper with names or serial numbers on it, which she then supposedly turned in to the NV authorities, thus bringing punishment down upon the POW's. Snopes and other de-bunkers say this is not true, and some people claim that Snopes is FOS, including one person on Facebook who claimed he talked to one of those POW's who didn't want to go public and died in 1976.
I'm not here to argue whether Jane Fonda is a traitor or should be prosecuted or kicked out of the country or shot, or whether we should have gotten involved in the Vietnamese conflict or gotten out sooner or bombed the whole country, paved it over, put parking strips on it and been home for Christmas (which we would now call "The Holiday Season"). I just want to know how much of what is said about her trip to North Vietnam is true and how much is hysterical BS designed to make her and the whole anti-war movement look bad.
I figure if anyone has got the drive, resources, thoroughness, and inclination to get to the bottom of this has got to be somewhere here on Bullshdo.net...
I'm not here to argue whether Jane Fonda is a traitor or should be prosecuted or kicked out of the country or shot, or whether we should have gotten involved in the Vietnamese conflict or gotten out sooner or bombed the whole country, paved it over, put parking strips on it and been home for Christmas (which we would now call "The Holiday Season"). I just want to know how much of what is said about her trip to North Vietnam is true and how much is hysterical BS designed to make her and the whole anti-war movement look bad.
I figure if anyone has got the drive, resources, thoroughness, and inclination to get to the bottom of this has got to be somewhere here on Bullshdo.net...