The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (56 page)

“Now I know”: ibid.

The interview is a cathartic:
Independent Star-News,
4/7/1968.

“It’s called
Easy Rider
”: ibid.

“Recent headlines”:
www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.111-tv-547
.

“The experience was that strong”:
Ogden Standard-Examiner,
10/23/1966.

“handshake tour” of the war zone:
FML,
292–93;
Van Nuys News,
4/16/1967;
Anderson Daily Bulletin,
5/5/1967;
Panama City News,
7/31/1967.

“I’m still a liberal”:
New York Times,
7/16/1967.

His diagnosis of the real problem:
Troy Record,
4/17/1967.

Jonathan Schell’s nonfiction account:
MLSF,
195–96.

her first arrest:
Mansfield News Journal,
4/20/1971
; Walla Walla Union-Bulletin,
3/17/1970.

Jane is detained:
MLSF,
261–63. See also
Coshocton Tribune,
11/3/1970;
Alton Evening Telegraph,
11/4/1970;
Danville Times,
11/5/1970;
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,
11/10/1970.

vitamins:
MLSF
, 261;
FML
, 310.

“my alleged daughter”:
New York Times,
10/18/1970.

he will report her:
FML,
302.

“My daughter makes statements”:
Bucks County Courier-Times,
1/29/1971.

The figures speak to him:
DTD,
241; Lee Hill,
Easy Rider
(London: British Film Institute, 1996), 10–11.

He and Peter develop: Details on the creation, financing, and filming of
Easy Rider
are from: Peter Biskind,
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ’n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
(New York: Touchstone, 1999 [1998]), 61–72;
DTD,
252–81; Hoberman, 190–97; Hill, 15–29.

The picture grosses: Biskind, 74.

rainy New Orleans graveyard:
DTD,
256–58.

he has been after Fonda: Frayling, 134.

United Artists secured: Richard T. Jameson, “Something to Do with Death: A Fistful of Sergio Leone,”
Film Comment
, March 1973, 8.

Leone submitted the script: Frayling, 134, 183.

goes to Eli Wallach:
FML,
306.

“from sunup to sundown”: Frayling, 225.

“some kind of magical touch”: ibid., 224.

“I thought they were funny”:
Dialogue on Film
3, no. 2 (November 1973): 14.

wearing a bushy mustache: ibid.

“This Leone fellow”:
Big Spring Herald,
11/16/1969.

The song is retrieved:
MLSF,
90.

Winter Soldier hearings: ibid., 259–60.

FTA:
Madison Capital Times,
2/18/1971.

Jane introduces her father:
FML,
302.

“There’s a great deal to say”:
MLSF,
279.

planes are bombing dikes: ibid., 287–88. See also William M. Hammond,
Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968–1973
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996), 577–78.

Jane’s goal is to gather evidence:
MLSF,
290.

encouragement of antiwar activist Tom Hayden: ibid., 290–91.

Jane flies to Hanoi, photos: ibid., 290–321. See also U.S. Government document
H.R. 16742: Restraints on Travel to Hostile Areas
(available at
www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=FondaHanoi
); Carol Burke,
Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture
(Boston: Beacon, 2004).

“liars, hypocrites and pawns”:
MLSF,
327.

“to convey the impression”:
Morgantown Post,
4/26/1973.

“I felt betrayed”: Guiles, 243.

change of heart on Vietnam:
Eureka Times-Standard,
11/1/1972.

he attends her wedding:
Long Beach Independent,
1/22/1973.

he supports Hayden’s bid:
Oakland Tribune,
12/29/1975.

Henry hosts:
Billings Gazette,
4/5/1974.

“She’s been vindicated”:
FML,
301.

John Kerry, a Vietnam vet and passing acquaintance:
CNN.com
, 2/12/2004 (available at
www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/11/ elec04.prez.kerry.fonda/
);
SFGate.com
, 2/20/2004 (available at
http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-02-20/news/17414203_1_anti-war-rally-photo-agency-separate-photo
).

spit on by a veteran:
People.com
, 4/21/2005 (available at
www.people.com/people/article/0,,1052328,00.html
).

“Jihad Jane”:
washingtonpost.com
, 3/10/2010 (available at
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030902670.html
).

latrines will be decorated: Bruce Cumings,
Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 408.

“goes out with a liberal”:
Lima News
, 9/11/1961.

“He doesn’t want to talk”:
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,
9/9/1978.

“in back of your mind”:
Pasadena Star-News,
5/26/1968.

“He comes from the depths”: Frayling, 298.

Parisian students: ibid., 300.

cut by nearly an hour: Jameson, “Something to Do with Death,” 10.

“both the greatest”: Frayling, 299.

11. THE OLD MAN HIMSELF

Fonda makes a last visit:
Seguin Gazette-Enterprise,
8/13/1982.

For the location shoot:
San Antonio Express-News,
1/10/1971.

“Henry has always had”:
Burlington Times-News,
8/5/1970.

Shirlee Mae Adams:
FML,
281–82.

Henry meets her in late 1962:
Syracuse Post-Standard,
1/15/1966. In
FML
(279), HF claims Shirlee was his date at the premiere.

“It took me six months”:
Syracuse Post-Standard,
1/15/1966.

In the summer of 1963:
FML,
284.

“midnightly trysts”:
San Antonio Light,
10/7/1963.

The next summer, between shooting:
Casa Grande Dispatch,
5/20/1964;
Kokomo Morning Times,
8/24/1964.

10050 Cielo Drive:
FML,
285.

they are seen together at Broadway shows:
Galveston News,
11/17/1964.

cusp of mandatory retirement:
San Antonio Express,
12/9/1964.

they are wed:
FML,
289–91;
Newport Daily News,
12/4/1965.

works extensively for charities:
Long Beach Independent,
3/12/1973;
Salina Journal,
5/31/1974.

“I have tried”:
Salina Journal,
5/31/1974.

“He’s complex”:
Chicago Daily Herald,
3/30/1981.

estate at 10744 Chalon Road:
Des Moines Register,
2/2/1967;
http://www.realtor.com/property-detail/10744-Chalon-Rd_Los-Angeles_CA_90077_3b8ae001?source=web
);
Aniston Star,
2/22/1970.

“a fancy new Mexican restaurant”: Don Bachardy,
Stars in My Eyes
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), 185.

“a delightful acreage”: John Bainbridge, “Mr. Belvedere and Mr. Webb,”
Life,
5/30/1949, 50.

crewel embroidery: Jeff Stafford, “Starring Henry Fonda,”
cgi.tcm.turner.com/MONTH_SPOTS/00/09/fonda2.html
.

fruit trees on the back nine:
Winnipeg Free Press,
3/21/1979.

discovers bees:
Winnipeg Free Press,
3/1/1978;
Indiana Evening Gazette,
6/28/1980.

Bel Air Hive:
Indiana Evening Gazette,
6/28/1980.

Jay Sebring:
Tri-City Herald,
5/23/1965.

Sebring’s funeral:
Bridgeport Post,
8/14/1969.

John V. Tunney:
Long Beach Independent
, 10/18/1970;
Fresno Bee,
10/19/1970.

supporting his son-in-law:
Oakland Tribune,
12/29/1975;
Winnipeg Free Press,
1/29/1976.

his black Mercedes:
Aniston Star,
2/22/1970.

He rides a stationary bicycle:
San Antonio Express-News,
1/10/1971;
Victoria Advocate,
10/30/1969.

cosmetic surgery:
Pasadena Star-News,
3/29/1973.

“I had a little eye work”:
Oakland Tribune,
3/8/1975.

pitchman for General Aniline and Film Corporation:
Salina Journal,
10/23/1974.

legitimized a new market:
Pacific Stars and Stripes,
2/22/1974.

“belongs wherever he chooses to amble”:
Oakland Tribune,
1/21/1971. The floor-wax spot is on YouTube (
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBQuT0s1tNk
), as is Fonda’s commercial for the View-Master, costarring a nine-year-old Jodie Foster (
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5QGd-0X3bg&feature=related
).

“A good commercial”:
Pacific Stars and Stripes,
2/22/1974.

The Smith Family
:
Fresno Bee,
5/24/1970.

“will touch on today’s gap”: ibid.

claims to be intrigued:
Portsmouth Times,
12/21/1970.

“The Fedderson System”:
Gettysburgh Times,
4/25/1970.

films fifteen episodes:
Fresno Bee,
10/25/1970;
Cedar Rapids Gazette,
2/21/1971.

“The scripts were all completed”:
Cedar Rapids Gazette,
1/10/1971.

“There is nothing”:
Lowell Sun,
1/21/1971.