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Jane Fonda Regrets Vietnam Missile Launcher Picture

Posted: July 11, 2012

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Jane Fonda has admitted she will “go to my grave with regrets” over the now-infamous 1972 photograph of her sitting on a North Vietnamese missile launcher aimed at U.S. soldiers.

The snap was taken during Fonda’s visit to Hanoi in July 1972, and earned her the nickname ‘Hanoi Jane’. The actress, a highly vocal opponent of the war, accused the American forces at the time of deliberately targeting the dike system along the Red River.

Forty years after it was taken, Fonda has told British mag Hello that the picture, which outraged many Americans, had haunted her throughout her career since:

“In 1972 I was photographed, laughing, sitting on a North Vietnamese missile launcher aimed at American soldiers, without realising what I was doing.

“I paid heavily for that mistake, and am still criticised for it. I’ll go to my grave with regrets about that picture.”

Is there something to Fonda’s fears? Well, perhaps. Only last year, she claimed QVC had boycotted her appearance over her anti-Vietnam views.

And this isn’t the first time the Barbarella icon has expressed regret at the photo: she admitted as much in her 2005 autobiography, saying she had been “horrified at the implications” of the pictures.



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7 Archived Responses to “ Jane Fonda Regrets Vietnam Missile Launcher Picture ”

  1. John Arvidson
    Jul 11, 2012

    "Hanoi Jane" ought to remember that she also turned in prisoners, that handed her messages to take back to the U.S. that told people that they were alive, to the N V captors and therefore the prisoners were unmercifully beaten. Remember that Janie, you "Bitch"?

  2. Al Desrosiers
    Jul 11, 2012

    Jane Fonda is traitor to the United States of America and a crap bag in general. She was a no talent pair of boobs in the 70's with her only real claim to fame was her father who was certainly one of the best in his field. And like so many of the over privileged youths of the past she thought herself a crusader. She went to far by consorting with the enemy and going on the radio in Vietnam and condemning Americans. Add that with the anti-aircraft gun picture and I think in any other country she would of paid dearly. At the very least she should of been arrested and thrown in jail for twenty years. To this day the only thing she is sorry for is getting her treasonous act on film ( a picture is worth a thousand words Jane ). So go to hell Jane Fonda – you will find no forgiveness here.

  3. Harry Bageant
    Jul 12, 2012

    If I live to be 1000 yrs old, I will never forgive or forget the most treasonest person ever to the U.S.A. or its military. I am sure that many americans died for her actions and incouragement to the enemy to continue fighting. Remember you get what you pay for or reap what you plant. May you never rest in pease.

  4. Bill Anderson
    Jul 12, 2012

    I'll second that emotion, whole heartedly!

  5. Nancy Jones Kolsky
    Jan 14, 2013

    After all these years I'm still shocked she is still free. And then to find out she is going to play the roll of Nancy Reagon. Jane Fonda your not an American, to have to right to portray such a wonderful Lady as Mrs Reagan. Why did she get away with this? You should have been put in Prison for your whole life and that would be to good for you.

  6. Madeleine Bryant-Kambe
    Apr 13, 2013

    How many years ago? Yet Obama is president when he is recently allied with and has recent and continuing ties with terrorists..himself being married to a woman who wasn't proud of america until they elected her husband,, and you are worried about Fonda in the 1960s..It was wrong. We, as a generation, were indoctrinated against the war by our teachers in public schools, the television, our parents…also indoctrinated by the likes of Conkrite and others. I have changed drastically..happened in the Labor room, giving birth to my son…now a Tea Partier…are you still the same as you were in the1960s? Do you have anything you were wrong about? I most surely do. God is taking me step by step to repentance from things I had forgotten. I believe it can be the same with her. I believe she has accepted Christ as her savior and that he washed away her sins as we murdered Him on the Cross.

  7. Madeleine Bryant-Kambe
    Apr 13, 2013

    How many years ago? Yet Obama is president when he is recently allied with and has recent and continuing ties with terrorists..himself being married to a woman who wasn't proud of america until they elected her husband,, and you are worried about Fonda in the 1960s..It was wrong. We, as a generation, were indoctrinated against the war by our teachers in public schools, the television, our parents…also indoctrinated by the likes of Conkrite and others. I have changed drastically..happened in the Labor room, giving birth to my son…now a Tea Partier…are you still the same as you were in the1960s? Do you have anything you were wrong about? I most surely do. God is taking me step by step to repentance from things I had forgotten. I believe it can be the same with her. I believe she has accepted Christ as her savior and that he washed away her sins as we murdered Him on the Cross.