"Hanoi Jane"

[Sam Clements]

There is a newpaper hit as early as July 24, 1972.  It's an AP story from
Paris where Jane had just arrived from Hanoi, but the "Hanoi Jane" isn't
part of the article.  It's in a NC newspaper with the headline(almost
certainly written by a local copy editor) which says ['Hanoi Jane' Returns].
Was it already a meme in news circles, even if she hadn't gotten home yet?
Who knows.

Sam Clements
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
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Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 18:13
Subject: "Hanoi Jane"


>A review of Jerry Lembcke's* _Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of
> Betrayal_ says:
>
>     " 'Hanoi Jane,' Lembcke reports, does not appear in the
> mainstream press until 1978. It only gained wide currency in
> connection with protests over the filming of the romantic
> working-class drama 'Stanley and Iris' in Waterbury, Conn., in 1988.
>     " Lembcke bases his account of the Waterbury connection on
> interviews with local veterans, including the retired general who
> takes credit for 'having made "Hanoi Jane" the household phrase it
> is,' as well as local anti-war activists. "
>
> A quick glance in the Google Books mainstream press gives around 9
> genuine hits in English for "Hanoi Jane" before 1978 (and about 118
> additional raw results between 1978 and 1987 inclusive), with none before
> 1971.
>
>     1971:  _Three Sisters_ (Georgetown Univ.), vols. 1-2.  [WorldCat
> says this is held by 16 libraries, including Yale (but not,
> apparently, Georgetown).]  "The public gasped at her support for
> "Hanoi Jane" (Fonda), "Radical George" (McGovern), women's lib, and
> abortion. I was at the airport on my way to Washington when I crossed
> the path of this fire-breathing dragon lady of the pageant ..."
>
>     1971: _New Guard_ (Young Americans for Freedom), Vol. 11-12. [A
> volume 11 in 1971 is consistent with the starting date of
> 1961.  [Strangely, this only turned up when I asked for dates between
> 1970 and 1972; it is different from a 1973 hit.]  "Classified
> Ads.  Poster: 'Wanted for treason: Hanoi Jane Fonda ... .' "
>
>     1972:  _The Review of the News_.  [This too turned up only when
> I asked for 1970 to 1972; it is different from a1977 hit.]  "Hanoi
> Jane Promotes Red Line {bullet} Paris, July 25 ..."
>
>     1973:  Thomas Kiernan, _Jane: an Intimiate Biography of Jane Fonda_.
>     1974: _Ramparts_, vol. 13.  [Consistent with starting date of 1962.]
>     1975:  _American Opinion_, vol. 18.  [Consistent with starting
> date of 1958.]
>     1975:  Lois Karen Baldwin, _Down on Bugger Run: family group and
> the social base of folklore_, Part 1.  [A thesis, Graduate School of
> Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1975; also an
> "Internet Resource" published by ScholarlyCommons (OAIster).]
>     1977:  William Sloane Coffin, _Once to Every Man: A Memoir_.
>
> These are all No Preview, and thus without a page number.
>
> Review in Boston Globe, July 1, 2010, page G 11.
>
> * Author also of  _The spitting image : myth, memory, and the legacy
> of Vietnam_,
>
> I do not have access to newspaper archives.
>
> Joel
>
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