JANE FONDA SHOWS REBELLIOUS STREAK AT 71 IN T-SHIRT BEARING HER 1970
POLICE MUGSHOT

Nearly 40 years after she was falsely accused of drug smuggling, you'd
think Jane Fonda might have moved on.

But it appears the veteran actress, 71, is still be holding a grudge
against the Ohio policeman who arrested her several decades ago.

Dining out with a friend at celebrity eaterie Mr Chow in Hollywood,
the former fitness queen wore a T-shirt bearing her infamous police
mugshot.

Arresting style: Jane Fonda, picked up by customs officers in 1970
suspicious about vitamins she was carrying, at Mr Chow's in her unique
T-shirt

The actress had just finished working on Klute - hence her distinctive
haircut - when she was arrested at an airport in Cleveland on November
3, 1970.

The customs officers wrongly accused Fonda of drug smuggling after
finding vitamins labelled b, l and d (breakfast, lunch and dinner) in
her bag.

Known for her political activism, her arrest over something so
innocent as vitamins was a sign of the paranoia of the time.

At the time, the actress was on her way back from speaking at an
anti-Vietnam war fundraiser in Canada.

Wrongful arrest: The actress was arrested for drug smuggling in
November 1970 on the way back from an anti-Vietnam fundraiser

Writing about her false arrest on her blog earlier this year, she
said: 'They confiscated (my vitamins) as well as my address book
(which was photocopied) and arrested me for drug smuggling.

'I told them what they were but they said they were getting orders
from the White House - that would be the Nixon White House.

'I think they hoped this "scandal" would cause the college speeches to
be cancelled and ruin my respectability. I was handcuffed and put in
the Cleveland Jail, which is when the mugshot was taken.

'I was released on bond and months later, after every pill had been
tested in a lab (with taxpayers money!) the charges were dismissed and
there were a few paragraphs hidden in the back of papers that they
were vitamins, not drugs.'

Earlier this year, Fonda gave her permission for her teen pregnancy
charity the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention to
raise money using her mugshot on T-shirts, mugs and tea towels.