Ted & Jane

Jane Hall’s interview with Ted Turner (“We’re Listening, Ted,” April 3) contains the following remarkable, unsubstantiated political statement that cannot be left unchallenged, “The Vietnamese were innocent. We’re the ones that started the war.” It seems that Ted has succumbed to Jane’s constant harangues and revisionist rewriting of history.

Before the United States’ entry into the conflict in Southeast Asia in the early 1960s, the Vietnamese were far from “innocent,” having, since the waning days of World War II, been subject to internal warfare. After U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1975, the peaceful Vietnamese, respecting borders, became embroiled in numerous excursions and conflicts with their neighbors China, Cambodia and Laos.

Turner’s brilliance in business has been demonstrated; however, his political outbursts, mirroring Jane’s ignorance, are a pathetic attempt at appearing politically correct while practicing censorship of the airwaves.

FRED LANDESMAN, Chatsworth

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Regarding your interview with Ted Turner, I’d like to know if Jane Fonda was present, and if so, did anyone notice her hand move?

JAMES BRACHMAN, Newport Beach