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Famous American Trials: The My Lai Courts-Martial, 1970
URL: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/mylai.htm

Description:
Provides a history of "the massacre by United States soldiers of as many as 500 unarmed civilians — old men, women, children — in My Lai on the morning of March 16,1968 [in Vietnam] ... [and] the cover-up of that massacre." Features a chronology, maps, biographies, essays, opinion polls, discussion questions, images, bibliography, and related links. From a law professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States
My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968
Trials (Murder) -- United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Atrocities

LII Database Information:
Record 9188 created by Jennifer English on 05/10/2004
Last modification on 09/04/2007
Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 07/16/2007
Published: 05/10/2004  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/9188