John Kerry
Claim: Photograph shows Senator John Kerry and Jane Fonda sharing a speaker's platform at an anti-war rally.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2004]
Fonda Speaks To Vietnam Veterans At Anti-War Rally
Actress And Anti-War Activist Jane Fonda Speaks to a crowd of Vietnam Veterans as Activist and Former Vietnam Vet John Kerry (LEFT) listens and prepares to speak next concerning the war in Vietnam (AP Photo)
(Original images © Corbis)
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Origins: Unlike an
earlier photograph
which captured John Kerry and Jane Fonda sitting in the audience of a 1970 anti-war rally at which both were speakers, this image of the two of them together at a speaker's platform is fabricated.
The picture was created by merging two different photographs (both available through the
Corbis archives) taken at two completely different times and places. The picture of
John Kerry was captured by 20-year-old photographer Ken Light and documented Kerry preparing to give a speech at the Register for Peace Rally held in Mineola, New York, on
13 June 1971. The picture of
Jane Fonda was snapped by Owen Franken
over a year later while the actress was speaking at a political rally in Miami Beach, Florida, site of the Republican National Convention, in
August 1972.
Contemporaneous news accounts do not list Jane Fonda as one of the speakers at the 1971 Register for Peace Rally.
Ken Light, the photographer who snapped the original picture of John Kerry used in the above composite, Corbis, the rightsholder to both the original images, and the Associated Press, whose name was invoked in the caption to the spoofed image, have all announced their intentions to identify the perpetrator who created the composite with an eye towards pursuing copyright or trademark
infringement claims. Photographer Ken Light also penned an editorial giving his reactions to the issue of photo fakery which was published in the
Washington Post.
Last updated: 1 March 2004