My Lai: Were there congressional hearings, or just news stories and

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

public recriminations, media coverage of the courts martial?

[bobbieinok]

1. don't remember ..... Hersh broke the story nationally in the NewYorker

There was a fair amount of disgust that no higher ups were charged. Calley became a folk hero; I never was quite sure why but I was afraid it was b/c he 'killed a bunch of no good "gooks"'. He was a featured speaker at many rallys; I think he was invited to speak to a large group of SoBapts.

Wasn't he pardoned by Nixon??

[Dr.Phool]

3. I think Calley became a folk hero because

He was the fall guy. He was guilty as shit, but all his superiors escaped blame. Thanks Colin Powell.

[Disturbed]

6. Yes.

Will the Haditha Massacre aftermath be similar to the May Lai aftermath?

My Lai Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre#Cover-up

[jaysunb]

2. Very public hearings and trials.

pretty messy stuff.....

[Buck Laser]

4. I think Nixon pardoned him in 1973.

The national wounds from the Viet Nam war were still pretty fresh then, but I think the news got lost in the Watergate scandal.

[Breeze54]

5. Hearings... Links --

http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1970-2/1970-02-09-ABC-3.html
Headline: My Lai / Hearings
ABC Evening News for Monday, Feb 09, 1970

http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/NamWarCrimesHearings
Vietnam Veterans and War Crimes Hearings

http://www.paperlessarchives.com/vw_my_lai.html
Vietnam War My Lai Massacre
Department of Defense Documents

1971 - Feb 23, Lt. William Calley confessed and implicated Captain Ernest Medina in My Lai massacre.
Lt. Calley, as the lowest ranking officer involved, was the only one to be court marshaled.
(MC, 2/23/02)