Jane Found Solace

From Jane Fonda:  My Life So Far

...I was Henry Fonda's privileged daughter, who appeared to be thumbing my nose at the country that had provied me with those privileges.  More than that, I am a woman, which made my sitting there even more of a betrayal:  Barbarella become their enemy.

I had spent the past two years working with GIs and Vietnam veterans, listening to them, supporting them.  Now by mistake I appeared in a photograph to be their enemy.  I carry this heavy in my heart.  I always will.

The next day, departure day, Quoc said to me, "I think you need to prepare yourself. There are some US congressmen who are asking that you be put on trial for treason."  It was my broadcasts on Radio Hanoi that had triggered the charges.

Tom was waiting for me at the airport in New York City when I landed.  He whisked me downtown to the Chelsea hotel, where we holed up for the night like two refugees.  Both of us realised that it had been a mistake for me to go alone.  But I never felt that he was responsible.  I hate buck-passers.

As we lay in bed in our funky Chelsea hotel room, I told Tom that I wanted us to have a child together as a pledge of hope for the future.

We held each other and wept.

Jane was not the only activist to pass through the hotel.  Click here to read an excerpt from Country Joe's testimony at the Chicago Seven Trial.