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 ...

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, who during the Vietnam War led his US Army platoon ... in an incident known in the West as the My Lai ...

South Vietnam to prop ... 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 ...

Calley made the most momentous decision of his life,” wrote historian Howard Jones in "My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent ...

Seymour Hersh, one of the most famous U.S. investigative reporters, wrote for the National Catholic Reporter in the 1960s. In ...

Peers to lead the inquiry. Peers, a well-respected core commander in Vietnam, is ordered to examine the adequacy of inquiries into the My Lai massacre. This inquiry is intended to focus on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Additionally, he discusses the tragedies and aftermath of the Vietnam War, connecting the Mỹ Lai massacre to the civilian deaths in "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989), with Tom Cruise ...

Events like the My Lai Massacre were reported in the US press ... and launch a massive attack on US-held areas across South Vietnam, including the US Embassy in Saigon. The attack was a success ...