"Stolen Honor" Fuels Fire Over Kerry War Record

Monday, October 18, 2004

NEW YORK — A Vietnam veteran shown in the new documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal" filed a libel lawsuit Monday against the movie's producer, saying the film falsely calls him a fraud and a liar.

Kenneth J. Campbell, now a professor at the University of Delaware, said in the lawsuit that the film combines footage of him appearing at a 1971 war protest with narration that claims that many of the supposed veterans who took part in the event were later "discovered as frauds" who "never set foot on the battlefield, or left the comfort of the states, or even served in uniform."

The lawsuit said viewers would be left with the perception that Campbell had lied about his military service. It names film producer Carlton Sherwood and his company, Red White and Blue Productions, as defendants.

"The defendants' malicious, reckless and scandalous misrepresentations and falselight presentations of Dr. Campbell were done with the specific intent to defame Dr. Campbell and place him in a false light, and with a reckless and outrageous disregard for the truth," Campbell's attorney wrote in the lawsuit.

Campbell attached copies of his military records to the lawsuit, showing that he received the Purple Heart medal and eight other medals, ribbons and decorations for his service as an artillery forward observer in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969.

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Once again, right wing assholes make up lies to advance their radical and dishonorable political agenda.