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My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

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Jane Fonda
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
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