After Uproar, LA County Moves Jane Fonda Day to April 8

Vietnamese Americans were upset that a Vietnam War protester was to be honored April 30, the day Saigon fell in 1975.
After Uproar, LA County Moves Jane Fonda Day to April 8
Actress Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi, North Vietnam, on July 25, 1972. AFP via Getty Images
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has moved Jane Fonda Day to April 8 from the previously proclaimed date of April 30, after backlash from critics and Vietnamese Americans upset over the date’s overlap with the fall of Saigon.

South Vietnam’s 1975 fall to communist North Vietnam, known as Black April, is observed on April 30 and is a solemn occasion for veterans of that war and the 521,100- strong Vietnamese population in California.

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