Ron Ridenhour gets testimony from Private Michael Bernhardt, who had refused to take part in the massacre at My Lai. Although Ridenhour is discharged soon after this interview and returns to his ...
In a small corner of central Vietnam, where a museum and memorial mark one of America’s most infamous wartime atrocities, a ...
It wasn’t until more than a year later that news of the massacre became public. And while My Lai was the most notorious massacre in modern U.S. military history, it was not an aberration ...
If the accounts of others who have spoken out publicly stand up, C Company, as Ridenhour wrote, is indeed involved in “something rather dark and bloody” at My Lai. Before the 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 ...
By Damien Cave Damien Cave reported from the village of Son My, the site of the My Lai massacre. The strawberry ice cream for sale by the ticket booth seemed out of place at the museum to the My ...
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 ...
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 Calley, in 1971, arriving at a pre-trial hearing for the My Lai massacre A former US officer who was the only person to be convicted in connection with the My Lai massacre during the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...