A video clip of Jane Fonda speaking against the US war in Vietnam at Fountain Street Church in 1972

Editor’s note: I have been working with Fountain Street Church and looking at a substantial amount of archival materials they have. Today’s post is only possible because Fountain Street Church has provided me access to their archives and they want this information to be public and available to the community. I will be hosting the archival material on the Grand Rapids People’s History Project site, but also posting here on GRIID. This is the second in a series of postings from the archival material at Fountain Street Church.

So far I have posted talks by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, James Meredith, Dick Gregory, Amy Goodman and bell hooks, all of whom spoke at Fountain Street Church.

In today’s post we bring you a short part of a talk that Jane Fonda gave at Fountain Street Church, since most of the video has been corrupted. In the few minutes of this video we hear Fonda talk about how she got involved in the anti-war movement.

Anther great resource about the anti-Vietnam War movement, which Fonda was a part of, is the documentary Sir, No Sir! Jane Fonda is in this documentary, but the bulk of the film is about the GI involvement in the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 70s.