On March 26 , 2019 , Jon Voight was appointed to a six year term on the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC as reported the next day by the Washington Post and Fox News . In his early life , his political views aligned with American liberal views and he supported President John F. Kennedy , describing his assassination as traumatizing to people at that time . He also worked for George McGovern 's voter registrations efforts in the inner cities of Los Angeles . Voight actively protested against the Vietnam War . In the 1970s , he made public appearances alongside Jane Fonda and Leonard Bernstein in support of the leftist Unidad Popular group in Chile
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