"Hanoi Jane"

Fri Jul 2 13:11:08 UTC 2010

At 7/1/2010 08:53 PM, Sam Clements wrote:
>There is a newpaper hit as early as July 24, 1972.

_The Review of the News_ cite seems to be datelined July 25,
1972.  (Perhaps a review takes a day or two longer.)

>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.

We will if someone finds that my two 1971-1972 cites are actually
1971.  (Hint -- both are held by Yale.  And one is not held by Harvard.)

Joel

>Sam Clements
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>From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
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>Subject: "Hanoi Jane"
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>
>>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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