evidence: During the trip, Fonda was photographed sitting on the seat of a Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. The response to the image back home was virulent, earning her the nickname Hanoi Jane. After she returned, a man representing what he called the American Liberty League threatened to assassinate her as a "traitor to the U.S." She was publicly denounced by a Maryland state legislator, William J. Burkhead, and in Colorado a state representative, Michael Strang, called her a "foulmouthed, offensive little Vassar dropout." As Mary Hershberger observes, in her book "Jane Fonda’s War" (2005), "Almost all of the columnists and reporters who wrote contemptuous reports were male. They usually focused on what she looked like, and seldom on her ideas or the issues she raised. . . . She ‘harangued,’ she talked too fast . . . she didn’t smile enough, she didn’t have a sense of humor." Fonda attributes the vehemence of the response to both gender and class. "I was Henry Fonda’s daughter. I was privileged. I was Barbarella. They had my posters in their locker rooms. So I betrayed class, I betrayed gender, and I betrayed, you know—you’re a pinup girl, you’re not supposed to speak.