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Originally Posted by DonovanPhillips
There will always be two sides of this story. "Hanoi Jane" has never sued the author of this article as far as I can find. Don't you think she would on charges as serious as this? God knows she has the money to do it.
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The people whose names are cited have all denounced this story as bullshit. This is a propaganda piece, pure and simple. I don't give a shit about Jane Fonda, but there's nothing I hate more then these bogus chain letters that get passed off as the truth. This is truly the age of disinformation - any one person's distorted worldview can now become fact.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...aa110399b.htm#
"Claim: A POW spat at Fonda, for which he was brutally beaten.
Status: FALSE.
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This story is attributed in the email to former Air Force pilot Jerry Driscoll, who says it's false and did not originate from him. I wasn't able to speak with him directly, but Mike McGrath and Paul Galanti, fellow officers of the Nam-POWs organization to which Driscoll belongs, told me he unequivocally disavows the story.
[UPDATE: After this commentary was written I received personal confirmation from Jerry Driscoll that the story is indeed bogus ? as he put it, "the product of a very vivid imagination."]
Mike McGrath, currently serving as the president of Nam-POWs, has worked hard to help Driscoll and Carrigan squelch the false rumors circulating under their names.
"They would like to get their names removed but the story seems to have a life of its own," he told me. "There are a lot of folks out there who would love to have a story like that to hang their hat and their hate on."