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 ...

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 ...

U.S. soldiers entered the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War - and by the end of the day, hundreds of civilians lay ...

In this episode, Don is joined by Christopher Levasque to examine one of the most harrowing chapters of the war in Vietnam. They return to March 1968, when the men of Charlie Company undertook a ...

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 ...

Whatever you think about the events of 1968—the subject of our special January/February issue—they should not be forgotten.

4, 1969, after testifying about the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam. AP Everybody's heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who ...

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 ...

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 ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in ...

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 ...

Vietnam marked 50 years since the My Lai massacre on Friday in a memorial ceremony at the site of the killings that was attended by survivors of the massacre, their families, and around 60 US ...