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Jane Fonda Regrets 1972 Visit to Vietnam Gun Site
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-04-01 10:37
American actress
and activist Jane Fonda is surrounded by soldiers and reporters as she
sings an anti-war song near Hanoi during the Vietnam War in July 1972.
[File photo/AP] | Jane Fonda regrets her visit to
a North Vietnamese gun site in 1972, the actress and fitness guru said in an
interview with CBS television show "60 Minutes" to be aired on Sunday.
The actress defended her trip to Vietnam in 1972, which won her the nickname
"Hanoi Jane." But she said her visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun
site used to shoot down U.S. pilots was a "betrayal" of the U.S. military.
"The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on
an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal," she said, calling the act, "The largest
lapse of judgment that I can even imagine."
But she said she did not regret visiting Hanoi, or being photographed with
American prisoners of war there.
"There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs," she
said. "Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda. ... It's not something
that I will apologize for."
Three decades on, Vietnam continues to be a divisive issue for Americans.
During last year's election campaign, some Republican supporters of President
Bush called his Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry, "Hanoi John" for protesting
the Vietnam War after fighting in it and receiving five medals for combat duty.
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