Kerry–Fonda 2004 election photo controversy

During the 2004 presidential election campaign an image was released that showed John Kerry and Jane Fonda speaking together at an anti-Vietnam War protest.

The image turned out to be a politically motivated forgery, intended to link Kerry with Fonda, whom some consider a traitor after her controversial visit to Hanoi during the Vietnam War.

[5] The most influential media outlet to publish the forgery was The New York Times, which cited the image in a Sheryl Gay Stolberg story on February 13, 2004.

Some sort of encryption in the digital file that can't be passed on.The only known authentic photograph in which Kerry and Fonda appear together was taken by Leif Skoogfors at a rally at Valley Forge, PA in 1970.

[10] In 2005, Light tracked down the creator of the image, Richard Taylor, and sued him in New York Federal District Court for copyright infringement.