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When the actor Jane Fonda was arrested in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, during a
demonstration for action on climate change, it was part of a long history of
activism by the actor.

Fonda’s activism also made news last year, with the debut of a documentary about
the subject — as well as when then-Today host Megyn Kelly called out the actor
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The feud between Kelly and Fonda began in September of 2017, when Fonda appeared
on NBC’s Today show to talk to Kelly about her film, Our Souls at Night. During
the appearance, Fonda shut down the host for asking about her history with
cosmetic surgery. Fonda has since criticized Kelly for bringing up plastic
surgery that day, saying in a January 2018 interview with Variety that Kelly’s
question showed “she’s not that good an interviewer.” Fonda also joked about
Kelly during an appearance on Today in early 2018, when her Grace & Frankie
costar Lily Tomlin made a crack about knowing Fonda before her “first facelift.”

Kelly added fuel to the fire Jan. 22, 2018, in an on-air monologue, saying she
is not “in the market for a lesson from Jane Fonda on what is and is not
appropriate.” She then attacked Fonda for her history as a Vietnam War
protester, bringing the actor’s patriotism into question. “After all, this is a
woman who is synonymous with outrage. Look at her treatment of our military
during the Vietnam War. Many of our veterans still call her ‘Hanoi Jane’ thanks
to her radio broadcasts which attempted to shame American troops,” she said.

Kelly dug into this part of Fonda’s past, as well as her refusal to discuss
plastic surgery, for more than three minutes on Today.

“By the way, [Fonda] still says she’s ‘not proud’ of America,” Kelly said. “So
the moral indignation is a little much. She put her plastic surgery out there.
She said she wanted to discuss the plight of older women in America. And
honestly, she has no business lecturing anyone on what qualifies as offensive.”

The past to which Kelly referred can be traced back to 1972, at which point the
Vietnam War had been raging for roughly a decade.

Amid what was widely perceived as a lack of progress in the war, its
continuation prompted widespread protests in the U.S. It was around that time
that Fonda focused her political activism solely on the antiwar movement. By
that point, she was a prominent movie star, renowned for her performances in
critically acclaimed films like Klute, Barefoot in the Park, Barbarella and They
Shoot Horses Don’t They? Having worked on behalf of Native Americans and the
Black Panthers in the 1960s, Fonda dove into protesting the Vietnam War, first
with the formation of the “Free Army Tour” (FTA) with actor Donald Sutherland in
1970. FTA was an anti-war show designed to contrast Bob Hope’s USO tour, touring
military bases on the West Coast and talking to soldiers before they were
deployed to Vietnam.

Read more: From ‘Hanoi Jane’ to the Workout: A Brief History of Jane Fonda’s
Activism

In 1972, Fonda went on to tour North Vietnam in a controversial trip would come
to be the most famous — or infamous — part of her activist career, and led to
her the nickname “Hanoi Jane.” While in Vietnam, Fonda appeared on 10 radio
programs to speak out against the U.S. military’s policy in Vietnam and beg
pilots to cease bombing non-military targets. It was during that trip that a
photograph was taken of her seated on an anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi, making it
look like she would shoot down American planes.

At the time, Fonda’s public criticisms of U.S. leadership caused massive outrage
among American officials and war veterans. According to the Washington Post,
some lawmakers saw her protests as treasonous, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars
called for Fonda to be tried as a traitor. At one point, the Maryland state
legislature considered banning her and her films from the state.

On the other hand, the antiwar feeling Fonda came to embody was relatively
widespread among the American population at the time, and, as filmmaker Lynn
Novick put it in discussing recent documentary series The Vietnam War, some
veterans “think she was courageous for going to Hanoi and taking a stand even
though they didn’t agree with everything she had to say.” More recent
scholarship has also emphasized the ways in which the idea of “Hanoi Jane” has
grown far beyond Fonda’s actual actions during that tumultuous period.

Since then, Fonda has apologized repeatedly for the “Hanoi Jane” photo, and
clarified that her actions during the Vietnam War were in protest of the U.S.
government and not against soldiers. She addressed the photo in her 2005 memoir
My Life So Far:

> Here is my best, honest recollection of what took place. Someone (I don’t
> remember who) leads me toward the gun, and I sit down, still laughing, still
> applauding. It all has nothing to do with where I am sitting. I hardly even
> think about where I am sitting. The cameras flash. I get up, and as I start to
> walk back to the car with the translator, the implication of what has just
> happened hits me. Oh, my God. It’s going to look like I was trying to shoot
> down U.S. planes! I plead with him, “You have to be sure those photographs are
> not published. Please, you can’t let them be published.” I am assured it will
> be taken care of. I don’t know what else to do. It is possible that the
> Vietnamese had it all planned. I will never know. If they did, can I really
> blame them? The buck stops here. If I was used, I allowed it to happen. It was
> my mistake, and I have paid and continue to pay a heavy price for it.

Nearly a half-century later, some veterans still aren’t pleased with Fonda’s
actions in 1972. In 2015, about 50 veterans protested her appearance at the
Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, Md., holding signs that said,
“Forgive? Maybe. Forget? Never.”

Fonda told the crowd she tries to maintain open conversations with veterans,
according to the Frederick News-Post.

“Whenever possible I try to sit down with vets and talk with them, because I
understand and it makes me said,” she said. “It hurts me and it will to my grave
that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against
the soldiers.”

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