We former POWs will never forget being forced to listen to the propaganda broadcasts of Jane Fonda from Hanoi. “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam is ‘must reading’ for those who want irrefutable proof of Hanoi Jane’s treachery, and its legal significance.
Mike McGrath, Capt. USN (Ret.) — President, NAM-POW
No American who loves their country will fail to be sickened by the story Professor and Mrs. Holzer have told in this book. They are owed a debt of gratitude by those who cherish liberty and continue to defend it.
David Horowitz, President, David Horowitz Freedom Center
Using [Fonda’s] own speeches . . . Professor and Mrs. Holzer cleverly connect her eagerly delivered statements to the law of treason, and lead you through a thicket of law and evidence with incontrovertible logic. Follow them through this remarkable book as they prove that there was enough evidence to indict and convict her of the grandfather of all crimes. You, too, can review that evidence and then cast a ‘guilty’ ballot.
George E. "Bud" Day, Col. USAF (Ret.) — Recipient of the Medal of Honor
Axis Sally, Tokyo Rose, Lord Haw Haw–all of whom were punished as traitors–would have been amazed to read “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam. The sum for their acts of treason equals a small fraction of the acts of aid and comfort Jane Fonda gave our Communist enemies. This book will shock many Americans. That Fonda committed many acts of aid and comfort documented here is astonishing. That the American government looked the other way is astounding. This book provides the indictment that the government could have handed to a jury–if it had the will to do so in those days. A ‘must read’!
Fred Kiley, Col. USAF (Ret.) — Co-author, Honor Bound, American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973
“Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam is not a potboiler; it is a blood boiler, and your blood will surely boil when you read the Holzer’s description of Jane Fonda’s treachery during the Vietnam War. As a combat infantry officer in Vietnam, I can attest to the fact that Jane Fonda, and people like her, succeeded very well in lowering troop morale, and as any combat vet will tell you, low morale leads to lowered effectiveness, and that leads to battlefield deaths. Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer present a well written, well researched, and very logical indictment for treason against Jane Fonda. This book is not only about the past, it is about the post-September 11, 2001, present; it is about people who can find nothing good about their country, people who see no moral justification in national defense, people who make excuses for and who aid and abet repressive and hostile regimes. For those of us who answered the call of duty, and who put their lives on the line for this country, Jane Fonda will forever be a symbol of treachery, divisiveness, and cowardness. In a way, she got away with treason, but the Holzer’s book goes a long way in righting a terrible wrong.
Nelson DeMille, Author, Up Country
This excellent and meticulously researched book indisputably makes the case that Jane Fonda could have and should have been indicted for treason for her unconscionable activities on behalf of our nation’s enemy during the Vietnam War.
Contrary to what other reviewers have opined, this is NOT ‘ancient history.’
With our troops once again in harm’s way in a shooting war, Ms. Fonda’s despicable activities need to be kept clearly in mind by those who would cross the line separating robust discourse from the giving of aid and comfort to the enemy.
Disagreeing with our nation’s foreign policy does not give one license to commit treason. Ms. Fonda’s treasonous actions, and our government’s weak-kneed failure to prosecute her for her crime, also need to be kept in mind by our current leaders. When the government makes the decision to commit our armed forces to war and (for some) death, it has an obligation to prosecute those who cast in their lot with the enemy our troops have been ordered to defeat. Like it or not, wartime is different; not everything goes. And any government who, in the name of “freedom,” fails or is afraid to prosecute the treasonous, itself betrays our nation and its armed forces. The tale of Jane Fonda — and what she did, and what the government didn’t do — is indeed a timely one.
Pierce Haveko, Lawyer
“Aid and Comfort:” Jane Fonda in North Vietnam by Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer is a veritable sourcebook on treason. While the book is fairly short, it contains a great deal of documentation, including transcripts of Miss Fonda’s propaganda broadcasts and other interviews, long passages from court decisions, and congressional testimony. But the Holzers, both attorneys (Mr. Holzer is also professor emeritus at Brooklyn Law School) succeed remarkably well in making a notoriously difficult topic understandable to the non-lawyer. *** The Holzers conclude with the observation that there will never be a legal indictment of Jane Fonda for treason. “But there is another kind of indictment: a moral one. And that one, too, has no statute of limitations. Nor should it.”
Washington Times
It’s a must read but be prepared to be angry. Very angry.
“Aid and Comfort” does much to provide historical accuracy.
The Holzers were fair in separating fact from fiction.
A powerful highly informative book that highlights her disgraceful actions and many of her speeches and comments, in proving conclusively that she clearly should have been tried and convicted of treason-and sadly why the U.S. government pathetically capitulated. If you want to know the true story about this despicable unrepentant traitor, this is book to read.
This text is a superbly written and seriously scholarly product that provides the fundamental basis, based on a foundation of thorough legal analysis of documented events, for formulating what amounts to an indictment of the behaviors of a traitor.
Meticulously documented, logically argued indictment of Jane Fonda. *** A great read for all who see the specter of the Vietnam antiwar, antimilitary, anti-American movement looming over our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and a must-read for those who don’t.
This book should be required reading for everyone in the country. I spent 26 years on active duty in the Air Force, one year in Thailand during the war, this book shines a light on events that have been covered up for too long.
This book is written as a legal brief would be: the Holzers discuss the facts in detail; then explain the law; and finally apply the law to the facts. *** While the US government will never actually prosecute Fonda, this book provides necessary healing by trying—and convicting—Fonda in the “moral” court.
As a Vietnam veteran, I found this book of great personal interest as well. Buy it.
This excellent and meticulously researched book indisputably makes the case that Jane Fonda could have and should have been indicted for treason for her unconscionable activities on behalf of our nation’s enemy during the Viet Nam War. Contrary to what other reviewers have opined, this is NOT “ancient history.” *** The tale of Jane Fonda—and what she did, and what the government didn’t do—is indeed a timely one, and this book is important right now.
It is an incredible book actually. I found it to impressively detailed and well documented. *** I recommend this book more highly than I ever recommended any book as a work for history to be truly known.
The eight-minute O’Reilly Factor in which author Professor Henry Mark Holzer confronted Fonda’s former husband and comrade Tom Hayden is devastating to observe. Hayden falls back on a lame First Amendment defense, and he cannot even grasp that North Vietnamese leaders themselves said Fonda had given them the strength to continue. Can we get a link to the TV interview?
The purpose of the book as I see it is “He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it.”
This book should be read by everyone like myself who, at one time, felt that Jane Fonda was an American idol. The revelations described here, with the irrefutable primary source evidence, will convince even the most diehard supporters that Jane Fonda committed treason as defined by the U.S. Constitution. Instead of being deified by women’s groups and opponents of the Vietnam War (of which I number myself) she should be indicted for treason. The treachery and malevolence of this woman is a revelation.
The authors are attorneys and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that had she actually been indicted and tried she would have been found guilty of treason.
No American who loves his country will fail to be sickened by the story Professor and Mrs. Holzer have told in this book. They are owed a debt of gratitude by those who cherish liberty and continue to defend it.
Disagreeing with our nation’s foreign policy does not give one license to commit treason and any government that, in the name of freedom fails or is afraid to prosecute the treasonous, itself betrays our nation.
“Aid and Comfort” is a meticulously documented, logically argued indictment of Jane Fonda — with character development that no Hollywood biographer, let alone autobiographer, would dare pursue. Compelling! The authors successfully maintain objectivity with a very emotional subject and thoroughly substantiate the evidence. Jane Fonda clearly stepped over the line, causing immeasurable harm to the U.S. and great emotional distress to our POWs. It’s one thing to disagree with US policy but to embrace the enemy, visit our POWs in wretched camps, and broadcast the benefits of communism is totally unacceptable. This is a must read for people who seek the truth about Fonda’s outrageous behavior during the Vietnam War.