Captain Ernest Medina had told his men that all Vietnamese remaining in My Lai after their arrival would be Viet Cong members or sympathizers. Following the massacre, during which between 347 and ...

in My Lai and a neighbouring community. Vietnamese refer to the greater village where the killings occurred as Son My. “We started hearing the screaming and moaning from our neighbours ...

Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson speaks with reporters at the Pentagon on Dec. 4, 1969, after testifying about the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam. AP Everybody's heard of the My Lai massacre ...

William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed by US soldiers in one of the most notorious ...

Both Army officers and enlisted soldiers are taught that the My Lai Massacre, in which U.S. soldiers killed more than 500 Vietnamese civilians, can never happen again. The Army charged 25 people ...

Early morning on March 16, 1968, helicopters carrying U.S. soldiers flew into a tiny village on the eastern side of South Vietnam, bordering the South China Sea. They’d arrived by a series of ...

Only in the last few days has it been brought home to people that the massacre at Son My is not an isolated incident but simply a brazen variation on a regular policy of modern war. In spite of ...

The American reaction to hearing of the horror of the Son My massacre (My Lai) in Vietnam, and parallels with Hiroshima and the Allied devastation of Dresden. Mike Thomson investigates the ...

My Lai Four, a movie about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Here s the blurb: Freely adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Seymour Hersh, this film recounts the story of a platoon of ...

Captain Ernest Medina had told his men that all Vietnamese remaining in My Lai after their arrival would be Viet Cong members or sympathizers. Following the massacre, during which between 347 and ...

From notes taken during a November 21, 1969, telephone conversation between National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird following the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s ...