VIETNAMESE REFUGEES on a U.S. aircraft carrier in April 1975. They were taken to Camp Pendleton and many eventually relocated to Westminster and other Orange County cities (US Navy/Wikipedia).

In response to public outcry and objections from area lawmakers, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will  consider changing the date of “Jane Fonda Day” from April 30 at its next regular meeting.

Fonda, who has long been the target of criticism from her 1972 trip to North Vietnam in which she was photographed seated at an anti-aircraft battery, was being honored for her work in climate change.

But April 30 is the date in 1975 that Communist North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, ending the war and sending many thousands of people fleeing the country. It is widely observed as “Black April.”

Local officeholders, Orange County residents – many of them Vietnamese Americans who were refugees in the wake of the fall of Saigon – objected and the Westminster City Council passed a resolution objecting to the L.A. County resolution.

Among those calling for a change in the date were Assemblyman Tri Ta (R-Westminster) and Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Cypress).