How America’s darkest deed in Vietnam was eventually revealed
In Saturday’s ‘Irish Examiner’, historian described his university education in Texas during the period of the Kennedy assassination and the escalation of American involvement in Vietnam. Today, as the 50th anniversary of the massacre at My Lai approaches, he shows how it took 20 months after the slaughter of hundreds of civilians by American soldiers for the story to become public knowledge, and that no one has really been held accountable
The My Lai massacre occurred in Vietnam on March 16, 1968, but the American people did not learn about it until November 1969. I still have a vivid memory of the story breaking on the radio news.
