Transcript: My Lai Officer Apologizes For Massacre

ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
08-21-2009
My Lai Officer Apologizes For Massacre

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

This week, an apology, an expression of remorse. It came in Columbus, Georgia and it came out of the distant past for a crime committed more than 40 years ago. William Calley was an Army lieutenant in Vietnam in 1968. He was convicted for a massacre in the village of My Lai. American soldiers there killed hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians.

Calley was the only man held legally responsible for the My Lai Massacre. His life sentence was commuted by President Richard Nixon. And this week, at a meeting of a Kiwanis Club, ...

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