It was on March 16 1968 that the My Lai massacre took place in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province where hundreds of Vietnamese ...

This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War. In My Lai, where US forces massacred over 500 villagers, a ...

On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Army soldiers hunting for Viet Cong fighters and sympathizers killed as many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...