It's been decades but Jane Fonda still can't shake her "Hanoi Jane" image from the Vietnam War.About a dozen Vietnam veterans and other protesters on Saturday picketed the theater where the 71-year-old actress is starring in the Broadway play '33 Variations,' telling passers-by that she had once visited their communist enemy in Hanoi.
Fonda was tagged with the sobriquet "Hanoi Jane" after visiting the North Vietnamese capital in 1972, where she made radio broadcasts critical of U.S. policy and sat on an anti-aircraft gun laughing and clapping, as she describes in her autobiography, "My Life So Far."
Though she still defends her anti-war activism, Fonda has acknowledged that the incident was "a betrayal" of American forces.
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