(CNN) John Wayne's son defended his father amid calls to remove the movie icon's name from a California airport after controversial quotes from 1971 resurfaced. "It would be an injustice to judge someone based on an interview that's being used out of context," Ethan Wayne told CNN's Michael Smerconish on "Smerconish" Saturday. "They're trying to contradict how he lived his life, and how he lived his life was who he was. So, any discussion of removing his name from the airport should include the full picture of the life of John Wayne and not be based on a single outlier interview from half a century ago." Referring to the anti-gay slur, Ethan Wayne said his father "used a terrible word, no doubt about it."

Source: CNN March 02, 2019 18:45 UTC