What role does the Tet Offensive play in the My Lai Massacre?
What circumstances in troop deployment and officer training influenced what happened?
Why were more than 500 civilians murdered by Charlie Company?
Time Period Covered December 1967 - March 1968
In this episode, Lachlan confronts the horrors that occurred in My Lai on the 16th of March 1968. He attempts to answer why more than 500 civilians were killed, what the context of these killings were, as well as the role that officers such as William Calley had in producing the My Lai Massacre.
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** Be advised of a mistake in the episode. Hugh Thompson did not receive the "Medal of Honour", but a US Army Soldier's Medal. I meant this as a generality but forgot there is a genuine "Congressional Medal of Honour". Apologies. **
Sources
The Peers Inquiry of the Massacre at My Lai 1970
Edward Miller
The Vietnam War: A Documentary Reader
William Thomas Allison
My Lai
The Vietnam War
Geoffrey War and Ken Burns
The Vietnam War
Mark Atwood Lawrence
Anatomy of US and South Korean Massacres In the Year of the Monkey
Heonik Kwon
