Jane Fonda '"Alone" in North Vietnam

Artist Nihon Denpa News Agency (Japanese)

Artist San Francisco Record Examiner

Date1972

Mediumwire photo

Dimensionssight: 23.5 x 17.7 cm (9 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)
frame: 43.3 x 35.8 cm (17 1/16 x 14 1/8 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis

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Object number2011.156

Label TextIn 1972 actress Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam with her partner, antiwar activist Tom Hayden. This image, first published by the "San Francisco Examiner," is one of several showing Fonda in a steel helmet sitting on an enemy anti-aircraft gun. Declaring herself a peace activist, she claimed to have been duped by the North Vietnamese. “I will go to my grave regretting the photograph . . . ,” Fonda later proclaimed. “It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.”

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