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On July 16, 1972, a picture appeared in the New York Times showing Jane Fonda with three cameras looped around her neck standing beside a small group of men in pith helmets. She is looking at the North Vietnamese operator of a gun the size of a telephone pole. She is smiling and applauding. The caption reads, "AMERICAN TOURS HANOI: Jane Fonda, the actress, visiting an antiaircraft unit on Friday. She was reported to have made antiwar broadcasts over Hanoi radio. A State Department official called the report, `distressing.’"

The July 31st issue of Newsweek ran the same picture with this caption, "Guided Tour: Of all her crusades, none is dearer to the actress Jane Fonda’s heart than ending the Vietnam War. Last week, dressed in baggy trousers and a loose-fitting shirt, Miss Fonda turned up in North Vietnam as a guest of the Hanoi government. After her hosts conducted a guided tour of dikes and air-defense sites, Miss Fonda went on Hanoi radio to denounce U.S. `war criminals’ for what she described as systematic bombing of North Vietnam’s hospitals, schools and dikes."

In the August 7 issue of Time, Jane Fonda, wearing the same tourist outfit is shown in a picture walking in the countryside with several uniformed men. The caption reads, "JANE FONDA VISITING NORTH VIETNAMESE FARM WITH MILITARY OFFICIALS." Directly below those words is a picture of four unidentified, stern-faced men in striped prison clothes sitting in a room. One of them has a hand to his face with three finger tips touching his chin and the middle finger pointed discretely toward the ceiling. No reference is made in the caption to his dangerous gesture of contempt. It simply says, "FOUR CAPTURED U.S. PILOTS INTERVIEWED BY FONDA IN HANOI. More light may be cast on the question.

The article was about the bombing of North Vietnam’s dikes and the statement about light being cast on the question comes from these concluding remarks, "...More light may be cast on the question by the witness of an eight-man international team that last week flew from Moscow for a two-week fact-finding trip through North Vietnam. Among its members: Sean McBride, the respected Irish jurist who is head of Amnesty International, and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark."