Before the day was over, 504 Vietnamese villagers were killed by American soldiers in what would be known as the My Lai massacre in the Vietnam War.

Although Ken Burns and Lynn Novick had been taking a chronological approach to “The Vietnam War,” the filmmakers delayed the coverage of the horrifying My Lai Massacre, which occurred in 1968 ...

Visitors offer flowers at a war memorial dedicated to the victims of the My Lai massacre in the village of Son. AFP via Getty Images Calley poses for a photo at the Kiwanis Club, Aug. 19, 2009, in ...

In 1968 US soldiers murdered several hundred Vietnamese civilians in the single most infamous incident of the Vietnam War. The My Lai massacre is often held to have been an aberration but ...

William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, ... officer convicted for his role in My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, dead at 80 ...

Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history. He was 80.

Into the Shadows. My Lai: The Massacre That Changed How America Saw the Vietnam War. Posted: June 10, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. On March 16, 1968, U.S. troops entered the village of My ...

50 years ago today, American soldiers massacred hundreds (estimates range from 347 to 504) of elderly men, women and children in Quang Ngai Province in what was then South Vietnam. The My Lai ...

MILWAUKEE – Former Army Capt. Ernest L. Medina, a key figure in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, has died in Wisconsin. He was 81. Medina was an Army captain on March 16, 1968, when ...

William Calley, who during the Vietnam War led his US Army platoon into the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai and carried out one of the worst war crimes in American military history, has died aged 80.

William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, ... officer convicted for his role in My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, dead at 80 ...

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 ...