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Sherwood: 'Stolen Honor' Libel Lawsuit MIA

The threatened libel lawsuit against "Stolen Honor" producer Carlton Sherwood that prompted a tidal wave of legal warnings against the Sinclair Broadcast network has yet to materialize, Sherwood revealed on Tuesday.

"This lawsuit, I keep hearing about it," Sherwood told WPHT Philadelphia radio host Michael Smerconish. "You know, it's been a week now - I haven't been served. They don't even think it's worth putting a stamp on and sending it to me."

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  In comments simulcast by C-SPAN, Sherwood told the Philly talker that he believes the lawsuit, based on allegations from a Vietnam veteran pictured in the film who says he was maligned, was floated merely to intimidate theater owners and broadcasters.

"It was designed to intimidate, basically to chill anyone who wanted to run ['Stolen Honor']," he said.

The instigator of the legal action, Vietnam veteran Kenneth Campbell, said the movie libeled him because it showed him at an anti-war protest with a voice-over that says the participants were not really Vietnam vets and had been "discovered as frauds."

But Sherwood told Smerconish that "Stolen Honor" never mentions Campbell by name.

After a wave of legal threats from shareholders and Democratic Party officials, Sinclair decided to broadcast just four minutes of the film on Sunday.

The award-winning producer said "Stolen Honor's" most controversial segment features the testimony of U.S. POWs who say Kerry's 1971 anti-war testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made their predicament worse.

"He put their lives in jeopardy," Sherwood told WPHT. "They were already threatened with show trials and executions and what he did is he ratcheted that up considerably. In fact some of them were hauled out [by their North Vietnamese jailers], confronted with [Kerry's] testimony and accused of being war criminals."

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