I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life.”“When I feel scared, I look to history,” Fonda wrote. The Committee for the First Amendment was first created in 1947 during the McCarthy Era in an effort to defend free speech and oppose government activity. Kimmel’s show has since returned to the airwaves, but the situation triggered a multi-day news cycle about free speech and corporate capitulation to political pressure. “The stakes are too high, and silence is too costly,” Fonda wrote in her letter this week.