
The grand staircase at Chez Fonda. Photography by Nathan Martin, www.nrmcreativemarketing.com
Actress-activist-philanthropist Jane Fonda, who announced on Monday that she’s quitting Atlanta for Los Angeles, is apparently not wasting time getting a move on.
Her 4,700 square-foot, three-bedroom, three full bathroom Poncey Highland loft is being marketed for immediate occupancy, said Laura Crumley, who’s dealing with potential buyers or tenants.
“Her stuff is moving out tomorrow,” Crumley told Buzz, noting that some pieces of furniture may remain if the place is leased rather than purchased. By the way the asking price for a lease arrangement is $10,000 per month.

Fonda's "birth channel" hallway. Photography by Nathan Martin, www.nrmcreativemarketing.com
Lest some enterprising event planner seek to lease the spot and then throw bashes billed as a “Party at Jane’s,” Crumley said she did not think the building’s covenants would permit that sort of endeavor.
Anyone interested in buying or leasing the loft should contact Tina Hunsicker at Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty at 404-931-3944.
So, what do you get for $4.5 mil or $10K? Two

Fonda's bedroom features a mirrored canopy and glass fireplace. Photography by Nathan Martin, www.nrmcreativemarketing.com
fireplaces, two balconies, four parking spaces and lots of room. Fonda, who’s been here for nearly two decades, bought up four units and had them converted into the modern home, decorated in a spare, futuristic fashion. The building was constructed in 2000.
More photos of the home are posted on Fonda’s blog, along with her commentary about each room.

Art by Thornton Dial. Photography by Nathan Martin, www.nrmcreativemarketing.com
“This is my entry hall,” reads one caption. “To me it is a womb with a narrow birth channel and then you enter the wide open sunny loft to be born again.”
She also notes unimpeded views of the Atlanta skyline from her top-floor perch, (”When the sun rises the buildings turn pink. And sunsets can be spectacular.”), the mirrored canopy above her bed and the art she collects by Thornton Dial.
And, given her constant four-legged companion Tulea, it should come as no surprise that the home is in a “very pet-friendly” building.
90 comments Add your comment
bob from accounttemps
May 4th, 2010
1:35 pm
i would love to rent it, i’ll check my bank first to see if they will give me a loan,
Lance
May 4th, 2010
1:35 pm
who cares — Get lost Hanoi Jane.
Prof
May 4th, 2010
1:43 pm
Lance, geez, get over it already and move on. Life has passed you by.
dood
May 4th, 2010
1:52 pm
4.5 Mill for a loft? Good luck, Jane.
John
May 4th, 2010
1:56 pm
once again igonorance is bliss!
Donald Trump's Giant Flag
May 4th, 2010
2:01 pm
Bye, bye Hanoi Jane. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Bye Bye
May 4th, 2010
2:01 pm
Prof I agree with Lance….she’s quitting Atlanta for L.A.???…..Jane you have been fired from Atlanta years ago….don’t let the door hit you in the rear!!
JB
May 4th, 2010
2:06 pm
You’re country bumkins!!!! You better be glad someone with grace, class want to stay in this backward town.
stw
May 4th, 2010
2:10 pm
And I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you…
jc
May 4th, 2010
2:13 pm
So sorry to see someone who has GIVEN to this city go and all the rednecks and thugs that take stay.
Orlando
May 4th, 2010
2:14 pm
Thanks for all the awareness you bought to this city. You will be missed, and dont let the hicks on this blog get to you.
KnoxDawg
May 4th, 2010
2:18 pm
Let her donate it as a Museum for American POW/MIA issues, run by Rolling Thuder. That will be a start to redemption.
Say wha
May 4th, 2010
2:20 pm
4.5 million?
KnoxDawg
May 4th, 2010
2:21 pm
Orlando,
Many people who are not “hicks” but well educated, world traveled, intelligent Americans vehemently disagree with what she stands for. Let’s not start labeling people becuase we believe in something strongly.
ken
May 4th, 2010
2:27 pm
Wow it never ceases to amaze me at the ignorance of so many of these back-assward rednecks. Have you never been out of your mobile home park? Grow up and experience the world and not just your meth-labs in your trailers.
Big Bubba
May 4th, 2010
2:27 pm
Wellllllll, Gollllllie!!! Ms. Fondah dun gone up and left us. I’m gonna miss that lady like a pig dun miss slop. I sures hope you settle like a duck on a pond out ther on the coast.
RJC
May 4th, 2010
2:31 pm
So long to Hanoi Jane
KnoxDawg
May 4th, 2010
2:31 pm
It amazes me that anyone who disagrees with the life and legacy of jane fonda is stereotyped as backwoods redneck. Not a very sophisticated characterization of persons who opposes what she stands for. Pretty shallow.
Orlando
May 4th, 2010
2:32 pm
Knoxdawg, what she stands for?!? What exactly does she stand for that is so bad? Lets see, she has charities for educating women, she brings Hollywood and jobs to Atlanta, oh yeah, those are rotten causes huh? If you are referring to the stupid thing she did in 1970, get over it. Lets look into your past and see what dumb things you did as a 19 year old….
El Bingo es Loco
May 4th, 2010
2:37 pm
Orlando,
Tell that to the soldiers she disrespected. Equating the stupid acts of a normal 19 year old to the stupid act of essentially comitting treason against your country are two vastly different comparisons. While I will grant that she has done a great job of championing women’s causes, that does not dimish what she did to the troops.
aleipo
May 4th, 2010
2:42 pm
Jane Fonda didn’t disrespect soldiers. She tried to tell the truth about a senseless war. Some people can’t handle the truth.
art
May 4th, 2010
2:42 pm
This blog is being read while in Germany by an Atlanta resident to a whole conference of european investors who were interested in putting business in Ga. I thought it was the best way to show them the level of hate and ignorance that is still the south! I never would help provide you evil things with income to keep your hate spouting! Needless to say they are not looking at the Ga market for investment, hence you get no high paying jobs. I am also forwarding this article and it’s blogs to as many chambers of investment, and commerce so that they can use it as a base to sway investment to their markets- not the south. Thanks for the help, Ya’ll! Enjoy…….
Sally
May 4th, 2010
2:43 pm
LOL!! Okay, when you make a comment like that about the entrance hall to your home, don’t be surprised if most people thing you have a few screws loose.
And, who puts a mirror above their bed?
My only regret over Jane’s leaving is that you can’t make this stuff up…..
El Bingo es Loco
May 4th, 2010
2:44 pm
You have your opinion – I have mine…
fulldawg
May 4th, 2010
2:45 pm
Thuder?
El Bingo es Loco
May 4th, 2010
2:49 pm
art
May 4th, 2010
2:42 pm
This blog is being read while in Germany by an Atlanta resident to a whole conference of european investors who were interested in putting business in Ga. I thought it was the best way to show them the level of hate and ignorance that is still the south! I never would help provide you evil things with income to keep your hate spouting! Needless to say they are not looking at the Ga market for investment, hence you get no high paying jobs. I am also forwarding this article and it’s blogs to as many chambers of investment, and commerce so that they can use it as a base to sway investment to their markets- not the south. Thanks for the help, Ya’ll! Enjoy…….
Congratulations, you managed to generalize a whole section of the country while, at the same time, potentially killing the employment chances for those who actually do like Ms. Fonda. Oh, and if you’re in an investment conference in Germany, at nearly 9 PM, and you’reading the AJC article out loud to them – then I’m going to say that your chances of aquiring funding is slim-to-none anyway.
outspoken1
May 4th, 2010
2:49 pm
“chez”?
“chez”?
“chez”?
whodahellizchezfonda?
Ted still luvs ya' baby...
May 4th, 2010
2:49 pm
ORLANDO…
Jane Fonda was NOT 19…when she visited Hanoi…as she was born in 1937…incident took place in 1972…she was 34!!!
She should have been tried for treason…
F@#) Jane Fonda…
Selah…
Turker Slayer
May 4th, 2010
2:51 pm
To Art, I seriously doubt if anyone is really listening to what you have to say about the South. How about post a pic of you and your captured audience for us to see? Hmmmm
Hey Art!
May 4th, 2010
2:51 pm
Weren’t the Nazis from Germany? They invented hate and evil you pompous twit.
Jack
May 4th, 2010
2:54 pm
Fonda is a very good example of prostitution paying well.
Herron
May 4th, 2010
2:56 pm
Shut up Art the Fart.
El Bingo es Loco
May 4th, 2010
2:58 pm
Watch it, Herron. You’re going to miss out on all of the high paying, German funded jobs if you keep talking like that!
art
May 4th, 2010
2:58 pm
….if you could read, ______investors, not just German…..
Anyhow you need their money and jobs you poor broke fool……Love you, and I know you!!!
Herron
May 4th, 2010
3:00 pm
sniff sniff… What’s that awful odor? Why it’s Art the big fat FART!
Horatio
May 4th, 2010
3:01 pm
Do your investors enjoy your stank?
El Bingo es Loco
May 4th, 2010
3:04 pm
Who do you know, Art?
BTW, how do the ______ investors feel about you arguing with hillbillies and rednecks while at the conference?
art
May 4th, 2010
3:08 pm
El Bingo es Loco….putting together presentation now for tomorrow…..so whatever, you probably have a farm. You think it won’t have any financial effects on your closed system. Maybe, maybe not, but every little bit of exposure helps. Ever wonder why we keep loosing to other cities/ states of late….Again enjoy your day! I’ll keep showing the hate, and ignorance….
El Bingo es Loco
May 4th, 2010
3:13 pm
Oh, puting together the presentation…earlier you were in a conference reading this out loud…okay.
I do own a farm, actually. Do you have a problem with someone who works back-breaking hours to make an honest living and supply locally grown products to local businesses so they can sell it to the local community, which keeps all of the money and product contained to the local community?
Also, one reason we may be ‘loosing’ is because SOME OF US can’t spell.
And thanks – I will most certainly enjoy my day. Good luck with your presentation!
Horatio
May 4th, 2010
3:19 pm
Is your last name Vandelay, from Vandelay Industries fame?
JB
May 4th, 2010
3:33 pm
She was used by the North……as I guess most men have used her, her entire life. What she did in Vietnam will never be forgiven. Read about it in detail before you ” blow it off”.
Greg Lee
May 4th, 2010
3:36 pm
I’ve never understood why people with the cash want to live in a museum.
Cynthia
May 4th, 2010
4:03 pm
Wow, her Loft is gorgeous. If I had the money, this would be a good buy! Oh well, one can dream
Flo-Ri-Duh!
May 4th, 2010
4:31 pm
Hanoi Jane never belonged in the South …. good riddance.
John in Marietta
May 4th, 2010
4:38 pm
The fact is Jane Fonda protested a war we never should have been a part of. She did nothing to harm our troops who were only following orders from maniacs. All you folks who are still holding a grudge probably don’t even know the whole story or any of the facts. You were told to hate Jane Fonda and like the mindless sheep you are, are doing just that.
Trey
May 4th, 2010
4:53 pm
John, she took a picture with the enemy with their weapons pretending to be shooting our fighter pilots. She called our troops liars and said they were not getting tortured in POW camps. John, I am 22 and I research this information, so calling anyone “mindless sheep” is absurd.
Get over it
May 4th, 2010
5:01 pm
Who cares, Per the 1988 interview with 60 minutes below, She said she was sorry. Ever heard of Forgiveness? Or you going to be “redneck” that never forgets and I’m from the SOUTH. People do make mistakes. Check on wiki Only reason why we knew about it was because of her father. On her Loft very nice.
I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I’m very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families. [...] I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft gun, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless…
TheStandard
May 4th, 2010
5:03 pm
She’s really following love to LA – she put so much into this place!
I hate idiot real estate agents
May 4th, 2010
5:06 pm
Cynthia,
What makes this a good deal ? Have you done a square footage analysis ? Present market value of finishes? Know the values in the neighborhood and the current trends ? Doubtful. Either you work for Sotheby’s or your another ingnorant couch-potato “know it all”.
A CONSERVATIVE
May 4th, 2010
5:11 pm
HEY…YOU LIBERAL MEATHEAD BLOGGERS…..HISTORY WAS NOT NICE TO BENEDICT ARNOLD…JANE IS….A BENEDICT ARNOLD…A TRAITOR..
Mr. Ed
May 4th, 2010
5:12 pm
Without question it’s a beautiful space. It remains to be seen if the loft is worth the 4.5 million dollar asking price. Even with it’s celebrity owned status, I very much doubt it.
Bonne Chance ! Jane Fonda
Trey
May 4th, 2010
5:13 pm
“Get over it”, I wish she would go to the grave. I don’t have to forgive crap from her, she is a waste of life. Who cares if she apologized? That was most likely a fake apology to make herself look better. I am in the service and I can not stand her or people like her. It has NOTHING to do with being redneck, it has EVERYTHING to do with not betraying your own people or your country.
John Condas
May 4th, 2010
5:35 pm
She’s leaving Atlanta because of the lack of education and ignnorance of rednecks like you that haven’t left the 1960’s.
Hannoyed at Jane
May 4th, 2010
5:38 pm
Does it have a Vietnamese tank in the backyard or at least a hammer and a sickle for home repairs and gardening? She betrayed our country. I hope no one buys her house.
Polly Puupuu
May 4th, 2010
5:49 pm
John Condam, what is wrong with you?
bajeha
May 4th, 2010
5:56 pm
Some of the vitriolic posts about Ms. Fonda’s anti-war activities, which I am old enough to remember as I am near her age, are downright ignorant. She was hardly the only protester against the Vietnam war, just one of the more famous ones. I also recall that most Americans of the time felt about Vietnam like most people today do about Iran and Afghanistan: we don’t like being at war, but we back the troops being sent to fight it 100%.
Ms. Fonda apologized long ago for her more egregious acts during the Vietnam era. I suggest that the Jane haters weigh her act of contrition along with all the positive things she has done since that time, especially during her tenure here in Georgia, and then reconsider their ancient grievances. How would their own post-war lives measure up? IMO it’s time to be gracious — to forgive and forget, and to move on.
As for me, I will miss Ms. Fonda’s presence in Atlanta and her active participation in the local non-profit organizations she founded: The Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and The Jane Fonda Center at Emory University. I wish her well in her new home and life in California. Come back real soon, y’hear?
Hannoyed at Jane
May 4th, 2010
6:06 pm
All of you commie apologists, how about a few kind words for the 19 year old men who came back in body bags while fighting for her right to free speech in our country? She could have said anything she wanted to back in the States and gotten away with it. Instead she chose to use her fame across enemy lines to try to demoralize the very people fighting for her as a citizen of this country.
Trey
May 4th, 2010
6:10 pm
I hope she goes bankrupt one day.
Danny G
May 4th, 2010
6:25 pm
This woman has given millions to the needy. She was young, naive and down right blonde in the 60’s. I am sure that none of you haters of Jane ever made a mistake. I was born and raised in Atlanta. My great, great grandfather was Chief of Police in Atlanta around 1908. I am sad to see such hatred towards a person for a mistake she made almost 50 years ago. It makes me want to leave Atlanta.
jack
May 4th, 2010
6:29 pm
does it have heat?
Hannoyed at Jane
May 4th, 2010
6:48 pm
Danny G, how about a positive comment for the soldiers she disrepected instead of defending a traitor? If this makes you want to leave Atlanta, then do. Leave the country and mount an enemy tank somewhere else.
Pope UGA XXIII
May 4th, 2010
6:48 pm
Danny G, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Sure would have been nice to see this creep get tried for
treason. To hell with her, and I hope she goes bankrupt.
Polly Puuper
May 4th, 2010
6:57 pm
No one even knew she was still here. She kept a low profile because she knew she was hated so. Did you read her blog. Talk about pretentious. Funny how celebrities even “name drop”.
Polly Puuper
May 4th, 2010
6:59 pm
Birth canal… lol, that’s a good one. More like a colon.
SRB
May 4th, 2010
6:59 pm
What happened here was that Jane thought her days as a movie star were over. She was getting on towards retirement age and it was just easier for her to marry old Ted and settle down h’yar in “Alana”–hopefully, I’m sure, forever. BUT, it got old after a while, they split up, she got an offer for a movie playing an old lady, which is the only role left for women her age. Then she got a face lift, which she said she’d never do, and BAM! Back to La La land! She’s way too important, now that Ted isn’t in the picture anymore, to live in the South for NO reason. Y’all try to understand!
Belle
May 4th, 2010
7:33 pm
For goodness sakes….it’s just a piece of real estate!! Fonda does not come with it.
Bye Bye
May 4th, 2010
7:33 pm
Danny G what the heck has your great great whatever have to do with it ??? My family has been in Atlanta forever too. The bottom line is she disrespected our fighting forces. Maybe you should move to LA with her.
Michael
May 4th, 2010
8:39 pm
Danny G, the ignorant hate for Ms. Fonda is not just an Atlanta thing. There are morons all over the country who love to hate her and anyone else they can come up with. America long ago became a country so full of hate and ignorance that it is little better than a 3rd world country in many ways. It’s gotten suddenly much worse since President Obama took office. The uneducated redneck racists have always run their fat mouths whenever they could but the more educated racists who had always kept their yaps shut because they were afraid to be singled out and didn’t have anyone important enough to rage over have been able to come out in the open and expose themselves for the lowbrow fools and dimwits they’ve always been.
These are the people who puke their stupidity freely about Jane Fonda. But trust me, she’ll find plenty of the same in LA.
Trust me, leaving Atlanta is not the answer. It’s EVERYWHERE in this rat’s nest of a country we live in. You’ll need to set your sights much farther than just getting out of Atlanta.
ProudToBeAnAmerican
May 4th, 2010
8:45 pm
Well, don’t let the doorknob hit you in the yellow streak running down your back
Reality Check
May 4th, 2010
9:19 pm
Why doesn’t Jane own a watch? Cause there’s a clock in the kitchen. Jane, go bake me a cake. Get the heck out of town, traitor.
Bunnie
May 4th, 2010
10:03 pm
JB, that’s “bumpkins”. Learn how to spell before attempting to offer put downs of folks in a town you obviously didn’t come from. In fact, why don’t you go BACK to your town? We won’t miss you. That said, $4.5 million is a bit ambitious in this market, but I’m sure some starstruck moron will plunk down for it.
Bunnie
May 4th, 2010
10:06 pm
To all those who keep characterizing Atlanta folks as thugs and rednecks: if it’s so bad, why are you here? If everyone in Atlanta is a redneck because he/she is white, and a thug because he/she is black, sounds like the real ignorance is the ignorance you brought with you. Please go back to your previous town and take your condescending attitudes with you.
The Taxman Cometh
May 4th, 2010
10:42 pm
Hey, she shouldn’t be able to afford something this opulent.
She hasn’t paid “her fair share”. She hasn’t spread the wealth enough.
Go get’em taxman…Jan 1 2011
Tequila and Margarita en el 5 de may
May 4th, 2010
11:15 pm
100% Agree with Bunnie -
Love Jane
May 5th, 2010
12:44 am
Good luck to her! At least she has the guts to try new stuff. Shes one of the worlds true Beauties and one of the worlds best Actresses. There is no doubt about that. You Fonda haters need to look at your own little lives. She out there travelling the World…going to all the best Parties..mixing with all the Famous people…are you? Im thinking that maybe your hate towards Ms Fonda isnt about her War days…but maybe you are jealous??? Thats it! Shes out there having a great time and youre not. Good on Ms Fonda…..We LOVE you!!! You go girl!
Billy Carter
May 5th, 2010
7:34 am
I am sorry but she sat on anti-Aircraft guns in North Vietnam, and cheered at the thought of our brave men being shot down. She caused many of our POWS to be tortured and gave aid and comfort to the enemy. She has never publicly said she was sorry or apologized. As far as I am concerned she should have been tried for treason and is a criminal. Good riddance.
I am not debating the morality of the war. To protest at home, in retrospect, probably brought a bad situation to an early end, however to go and commit the acts she did, while our brave men were engaged in combat, is unfathomable.
Dee Dee
May 5th, 2010
12:03 pm
What does that have to do with the sale of her house. Mr. Carter, let it go and move on!!!!
ohnoyoudidnt
May 5th, 2010
2:26 pm
Jane Fonda did no such thing. You’ve had a lot of time to watch the history channel or read a book since the Vietnam War Billy. Jane Fonda has worn her heart on her sleeve for years, putting her life in danger to bring attention to the same exact human rights issues that we are facing today. She has been an advocate for low income and at risk young women and truly walks her talk. She shouldn’t have to listen to your ignorant prattle, it’s stupid and has certainly been addressed millions of times between then and now.
Joe Allison
May 7th, 2010
4:01 pm
I am aware of where she lived, the entire area of Ponce De Leon, and Highland, having lived here nearly 40 years.
Unfortuneately, due to the collapse of the economy, the loss of any “Middle Management” arena of endeavor, and that vacating of any form of manufacturing, most notable all of the GM Plants, Ford Plants, and Heavy Industry:
I personally wouldn’t even consider the area “Middle Class” anymore, and far from “Upper Middle Class”, even being a stone’s throw from either Emory or the Carter Library (no matter how one feels towards him): as far as a ‘Privleged Area’, I’m sorry, the answer here would be an unqualified ‘no’.
I really don’t blame her for leaving, because everybody whom would be anybody, else, has since the Olympics, as well.
AmVet
May 11th, 2010
4:40 pm
It is a historical fact that Fonda espoused support for a hostile force holding American POWs at the very site of their barbaric captivity during a time of war. I bet you “get over it” Jane lovers are the same folks horrified at the Abu Garib treatment of terrorists by the U.S. To bad L.A. is as far as she is going.
lost in windy
May 11th, 2010
4:41 pm
Lets see, Atlanta was once known as the most racist city in the world. Now people want that image erased from our minds because it happened in the past. Yet these are the same people that still want to bury Jane Fonda for something she did in the past, which she apologized for. Are these the same people that continue for fly the STARS AND BARS in the name of culture, yet refuse to apologize, but rather condone actions of past racial discrimination associated with Atlanta. Take a look in the mirror. Rather yet why waste your time, because if that is how you feel you’re beyond hope.
AmVet
May 11th, 2010
4:44 pm
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F
May 13th, 2010
4:05 pm
THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN’…..GO GIRL!
What a joke ...
May 13th, 2010
4:14 pm
Are we serious here people!?! “Jane Fonda announces she’s quitting Atlanta for LA” and for some insane reason the AJC decides this is N-E-W-S-W-O-R-T-H-Y …. Wow!!
Jane’s not “playing with a full deck” people! How do I know …. she chose to living in ATL, GA over Los freaking Angeles. ANYBODY with the financial means of Jane Fonda who chooses ATL over L-freakin-A is obviously %&@! nuts!
Michael
May 13th, 2010
4:48 pm
should have moved to Vietnam years ago………..
Hanoi Bob
May 13th, 2010
4:51 pm
Get the heck out of here you traitor! She should be in jail. I would love to meet her one day so I can spit in her face. The U.S. Military loathes you and wishes you nothing but harm you vile excuse for a person!
Henry
May 13th, 2010
5:33 pm
DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON YOUR WAY OUT THE DOOR……WHY DON’T YOU MOVE TO COMMUNIST CHINA, YOU DO LOVE THEM SO…………
Never Forgive A Traitor
May 16th, 2010
12:33 pm
Jane recently posed for photos in the AJC wearing her “Hanoi Jane” photo silk-screened on her T-shirt.
She’s still unapologetic for her anti-American rhetoric, befriending the Viet Cong enemy, and instigating the death-by-beatings of 3 POWS and near-death beatings the already badly treated POWs in the Ho Lo Prison who refused to cooperate with her Viet Cong `photo op` and false statements about their `good` treatment. THIS SHE MAKES LIGHT OF BY posing in her “Hanoi Jane” T-shirt!!!!!!!
Colonel Carrigan’s personal account of TRAITOR Hanoi Jane’s death-sentence for 3 POWS:
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E’s). He spent 6 years in the
‘Hanoi Hilton’,,, the first three of which his family only knew he was ‘missing in action’.
His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and
clothed routine in preparation for a ‘peace delegation’ visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive
and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number
on it , in the palm of his hand.
When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each
man’s hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: ‘Aren’t you sorry you bombed
babies?’ and ‘Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?’
Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat.. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped
rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed
him all the little pieces of paper..
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four
but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
Valerie Billings
May 17th, 2010
1:49 pm
Very nice!