History Today: How the My Lai massacre unfolded during the Vietnam War
It was on March 16 1968 that the My Lai massacre took place in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province where hundreds of Vietnamese ...
50 years after end of Vietnam War, My Lai Massacre remembered
This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War. In My Lai, where US forces massacred over 500 villagers, a ...
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March 16, the My Lai massacre in Vietnam
On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Army soldiers hunting for Viet Cong fighters and sympathizers killed as many ...
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Evidence of the Massacre at My Lai
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 ...
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U.S. Army Lieutenant Who Led Shameful My Lai Massacre Dies
William L. Calley Jr., the former U.S. Army lieutenant who led the shameful My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War—the most notorious war crime in modern American military history—has died ...
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Vietnam: A War on Civilians
There was nothing exceptional about My Lai. In the words of Ron Ridenhour, the former helicopter door-gunner who did more than anyone to expose that particular massacre, it “was an operation ...
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A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago
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 ...
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William Calley, leader of notorious My Lai massacre, dead at 80
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - William L. 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 ...
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SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion
Today in History: March 16, the My Lai massacre in Vietnam This time, wreckage from the latest explosion was seen streaming ...
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Weekend in History: March 15, Caesar assassinated on 'ides of March'; Today in History: March 16, My Lai massacre kills 500
Weekend in History: March 15, Caesar assassinated on 'ides of March'; Today in History: March 16, My Lai massacre kills 500 This is the weekend of Saturday, March 15, and Sunday, March 16, the 74th ...
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The My Lai Massacre
As the gruesome details of My Lai reached the American public, serious questions arose concerning the conduct of American soldiers in Vietnam. A military commission investigating the massacre ...
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My Lai Massacre
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 ...