A war crime covered up for over a year. The My Lai Massacre exposed the brutal realities of war and changed how Americans ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

South Vietnam to ... 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 ...

It may be cold blooded, but I think it's relevant to the massacre of Son My to recall the bomb on Hiroshima and the Allied devastation of Dresden. Now, in the Vietnam war, we have two related ...

One day in 1970, not long after I'd taken the first American journalist to the site of the My Lai Massacre ... Farish worked for the Red Cross in Vietnam in 1969-70. She was with the 25th Infantry ...

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 ...

(NCR logo/Toni-Ann Ortiz) In the years before Hersh's 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, he was writing for NCR, where he had at least a half dozen bylines.

He has written several books about the Vietnam War, including "My Lai: An American Atrocity ... connecting the Mỹ Lai massacre to the civilian deaths in "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989 ...