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===1970 arrest=== On November 2, 1970, Fonda was arrested by authorities at [[Cleveland Hopkins International Airport]] on suspicion of [[drug trafficking]].<ref name="Blog"/> Her luggage was searched when she re-entered the United States after participating in an anti-war college speaking tour in Canada, and several small baggies containing pills were seized.<ref name="HuffPost"/> Although Fonda protested that the pills were harmless vitamins, she was booked by police and then released on bond. Fonda alleged that the arresting officer told her he was acting on direct orders from the Nixon White House.<ref name="Late Show with Stephen Colbert">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Lc2OGt2_85Y Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20180920162848/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc2OGt2_85Y Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc2OGt2_85Y| title=Jane Fonda's Activism Drew the Ire of Nixon| author=Late Show with Stephen Colbert| date=September 20, 2018| access-date=September 20, 2018 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> As she wrote in 2009, "I told them what [the vitamins] were but they said they were getting orders from the White House. I think they hoped this 'scandal' would cause the college speeches to be canceled and ruin my respectability."<ref name="Blog">{{cite news| url=https://www.janefonda.com/mug-shot/| title=Mug Shot| author=Jane Fonda| publisher=www.janefonda.com| date=May 26, 2009| access-date=September 20, 2018| archive-date=September 21, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921153111/https://www.janefonda.com/mug-shot/| url-status=live}}</ref> After lab tests confirmed the pills were vitamins, the charges were dropped with little media attention. Fonda's mugshot from the arrest, in which she [[Raised fist|raises her fist]] in a sign of solidarity, has since become a widely published image of the actress.<ref name="HuffPost">{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jane-fonda-is-selling-merchandise-with-her-1970-mugshot-on-it_us_58cbe76ae4b0be71dcf40329 |title=Jane Fonda is Selling Merchandise With Her 1970 Mugshot On It |last=Vagianos |first=Alanna |work=Huffington Post |date=March 17, 2017 |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-date=August 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810073212/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jane-fonda-is-selling-merchandise-with-her-1970-mugshot-on-it_us_58cbe76ae4b0be71dcf40329 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was used as the poster image for the 2018 [[HBO]] documentary on Fonda, "Jane Fonda in Five Acts", with a giant billboard sporting the image erected in [[Times Square]] in September 2018.<ref>{{cite video |url=https://www.eonline.com/videos/277943/jane-fonda-never-expected-to-see-her-mugshot-on-billboards |title=Jane Fonda Never Expected To See Her Mugshot on Billboards |author=E News |publisher=www.eonline.com |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-date=September 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921114920/https://www.eonline.com/videos/277943/jane-fonda-never-expected-to-see-her-mugshot-on-billboards |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2017, she began selling merchandise with her mugshot image to benefit the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential.<ref name="HuffPost"/>
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