Ghosts of the killing fields: The My Lai massacre 50 years later

The My Lai massacre — the worst American atrocity of the Vietnam War — took place 50 years ago next month on March 16, 1968, although US citizens did not become aware of it until 20 months later when freelance journalist Seymour Hersh provided the first substantial account.

Historian Ryle Dwyer was a student in Texas in the early 1960s. In a two part series he writes, for the first time of his experiences in the American South and the link between the Kennedy assassination and the killings of 500 villagers in Quang Ngai Province.