The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'

NewsMax ^ | February 8, 2004 | Staff

[kennedy]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM EST

The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'

Democratic Party officials are hoping that no photographs exist of a well-covered Vietnam War protest where soldier-hating actress Jane Fonda and Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, then and up-and-coming member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, railed against U.S. war policy from the back of the same pick-up truck.

"Scores of newspaper articles about the march" exist, according to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley.

Dubbed "Operation RAW" [Rapid American Withdrawal], the Sept. 1970 march featured Fonda, Kerry and a motley band of anti-war vets in an eighty-six mile trek from Morristown, New Jersey and Valley Forge, Pennsylvania - two Revolutionary War sites.

According to "Tour of Duty," Brinkley's book on Kerry's war years, when the protesters reached their destination they were treated to Fonda standing on the bed of a pick-up truck, where she "denounced the Nixon administration as a beehive for cold blooded killers."

"Marijuana was in the air," said Brinkley. "Skinny dippers frolicked in the Delaware River. . . [The group's] long hair, ripped jeans, army surplus store canteens, and toy guns gave the VVAW the look of a ragtag band of Haight-Ashbury refugees. . .

"Along the marching route, veterans would shout out phrases like 'Kill him!' and 'Cut his belly open' for dramatic effect," said Brinkley.

Others who spoke that day proclaimed the U.S. guilty of "genocide" in Southeast Asia.

Kerry followed Fonda's Nixon denunciation with a rousing anti-war address that made him "the new leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War," Brinkley said. "From Valley Forge onward, [Kerry] was a committed anitwar activist. . ."

From there, Kerry went on to Detroit to organize a particularly offensive bit of guerrilla theater dubbed "The Winter Soldier Investigation," where Fonda presided as U.S. war atrocities were chronicled by "soldiers" who some later suspected were impostors.

After Winter Soldier, writes Brinkley, "Fonda personally adopted [Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War] as her leading cause."

[MamaLucci]

I've seen those, but look at post 131....I wonder if FarmGal
has a different photo of Hanoi Jane and JFK?

[Eva]

I'm not sure that is John Kerry in the photo. I did a search on John Kerry and a photo of an old rock group, the Gentle Giant came up and the guy in the picture looks like Kerry Minnear from that group.

[Tamzee]

Ping folks to farm girl's post...

She states she has a picture of Fonda and Kerry together but doesn't know how to get it posted here... can anyone help? I don't have access to a host right now and can only link to pics online already.

Thanks!

[KQQL]

sure looks like Jean Ferry !

[GOPcapitalist]

Posting a picture is very easy. Just take the following tag, insert the URL of your photo between the quotation marks where the http://www is, and paste it into the post box.

<img SRC="http://www.------------------">

[geopyg]

On the local news tonight the guy was ripping President Bush about the Meet the Press Interview. The last part he talked about was Bushes' "assertion that he was in Alabama with the National Guard and got an Honorable discharge. John Kerry, the Democratic front-runner, is a Vietnam veteran."

I just had to laugh.

[Mo1]

Behind Jane .. and behind the girl with the glasses

Who does that look like to you???

[Mo1]

Hey farm gal ... I'll be more then happy to help ya get it posted

[Mo1]

Yea it looks like the same guy ... Did you figure out his name yet??

[FreedomPoster]

>>>>If anyone can find a copy of Creem Magazine (a Detroit Rock n Roll tabloid) from March 1971 (Volume 3, Number 1), there may be some photos in there. They did a story on Winter Soldier.

>>see http://creemmagazine.com/ArchivePages/1971_03.html

A possibility for finding same:

Music Library at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/mux/printjournals.htm#C
Creem (784.05CR)

Now, who can we get to dash over there?

[Mo1]

Al Hubbard


http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/712ljiby.asp?pg=2

John Kerry seems to have had a way of eluding the bad odor that clings to his old associates. On "Meet the Press" in 1971, he appeared with VVAW member Al Hubbard, a veteran who was exposed around this time for lying about his rank and combat experience (he had seen no combat). While this confirmed suspicions about the dubious identities of many of the winter soldiers, it didn't keep Kerry from becoming famous. The young politician was able to have his cake and eat it, too, becoming the establishment, patriotic face of a radical, anti-patriotic movement. Quite a trick, really.

[Cindy]

TEHRAN TIMES.com (MEHR NEWS AGENCY): "KERRY SAYS HE WILL REPAIR DAMAGE IF HE WINS ELECTION" (February 8, 2004) (Read More...)

NewsMax.com: "KERRY TOOK CASH FROM CHINESE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE" by Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff (February 2, 2004)

"Vietnam Veterans AGAINST John Kerry"

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks ! I sent her a Freep mail requesting she email it to me.

[RandallFlagg]

Oh, please shoot me a ping when ya get it.

[Tamzee]

This might be helpful relating to Fonda pics...

Using her wealth and influence, she managed to garner support from American college campuses, advocating communism and encouraging rebellion and anarchy against the U.S. government. In a speech to Duke University students in 1970, Fonda told the gathering, "If you understood what Communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees that we would someday become Communist."

http://www.usvetdsp.com/story8.htm

[TigersEye]

Too funny! I thought of a Kerry/Fonda '04 bumper sticker last night and here it is displayed on FR this morning. Someone did a better job of color and design than my imagination did though.

[TigersEye]

Did you do that bumper sticker, mikeb704? Good job.

[Mo1]

Hmmmm ... I wonder how Kerry will distance himself from that???