Tuesday, March 30, 2021

The Calley case, 50 years on

A milestone passed yesterday: a half-century since First Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr. of the U.S. Army was convicted at Fort Benning, Georgia, of murdering Vietnamese civilians. The Los Angeles Times marked the date with a column by Nicholas Goldberg about the case and the civilian prosecution of Charles Manson and his co-defendants that coincidentally ended the same day in Los Angeles.

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