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The Scene of the Crime - The New Yorker  Mar 30, 2015 ... Seymour M. Hersh returns to Vietnam to visit the site of the My Lai ... By early 1969, most of the members of Charlie Company had completed their tours and returned home. I was then a thirty-two-year-old freelance reporter in Washington, ..... Vietnam, in 1972, three years after he broke the massacre story.
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Seymour Hersh breaks My Lai story - Nov 12, 1969 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Seymour Hersh breaks My Lai story on Nov 12, 1969. ... Seymour Hersh, an independent investigative journalist, in a cable filed through Dispatch News Service and picked up by more than 30 ... The incident, which became known as the My Lai Massacre, took place in March 1968. ... Richard M. Nixon.
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Chapter 2: Challenging Authority - WordPress.com  Hersh broke perhaps the best-known investigative story of the 1960s: the slaughter by U.S. troops of more than a hundred civilians in the Vietnam village of My Lai. ... News Service, sold Hersh's story to three dozen newspapers in the fall of 1969. ... Seymour M. Hersh, My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath...
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Eyewitness accounts of the My Lai massacre; story by Seymour ...  Nov 20, 2009 ... GIs Call Viet Killings 'Point-Blank Murder' By Seymour M. Hersh ... Pinkville, a complex of hamlets know as Song My village, is about six miles ... Eyewitness accounts of the My Lai massacre; story by Seymour Hersh Nov. 20, 1969 .... Freelance journalist Seymour Hersh provided additional eyewitness...
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My Lai Massacre - Wikipedia  The M Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed ... A number of specific hamlets within that villagedesignated My Lai (1) ..... journalist Seymour Hersh, after extensive interviews with Calley, broke the M ..... 1969, answered by freelance investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, and...
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An Ax Well Ground : FORTY WHACKS: New Evidence in the Life ...  Aug 16, 1992 ... Then we had "A Private Disgrace" (1967) by Victoria Lincoln, a Fall River native, who posited that Lizzie committed the murders during an...
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What Kurt Vonnegut Saw in World War II That Made Him Crazy ...  And he has spoken so for his own good reason, he suggests. ... AS A PRISONER OF WAR, WITNESSED THE FIRE-BOMBING OF DRESDEN, ... And, if one's own experience of war is to serve as a measuring stick, bodies in very bad ... tallies in many respects with a parallel description Vonnegut himself gave some years...
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Statement on the Historical and Cultural Significance of the 1969 ...  Sep 25, 2001 ... It drew the public's notice on the days and nights of Aug.15 through 17, 1969, on the 600-acre farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel, N.Y." 1 ... The Woodstock Festival was the largest and most spectacular gathering of .... But the day before the Festival was to open, New York's Police ... We were there to celebrate.
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No. 652, September 27, 1996 - Marxists Internet Archive  Sep 27, 1996 ... massacres of the Philadelphia MOVE organization in 1985 and the ... DIRECTOR OF PARTY PUBLICATIONS: George Foster ... Workers Vanguard (ISSN 0276-0746) published biweekly, except ..... formed cops in each car. ... was launched under the war cry ..... tion in late-19th-century Britain was sirn-.
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Remembering the Killing Fields - Mayfield City Schools  In 1949, at age 20, he traveled to Paris on a scholarship to study radio electronics but ... He lost his scholarship and returned to Cambodia in 1953 and joined the ... By 1962, Pol Pot had become leader of the Cambodian Communist Party and ... sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia, killing up to 150,000 Cambodian peasants.
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David Halberstam - Wikipedia  David Halberstam (April 10, 1934  April 23, 2007) was an American journalist and historian, .... In the wake of 9/11, Halberstam wrote a book about the events in New York City, Firehouse, which describes the ... that Halberstam, along with fellow Vietnam journalists Neil Sheehan and Stanley Karnow helped to bring about...
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Ramon Mercader | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers  Date of murder: August 20, 1940 ... Jaime Ramn Mercader del Ro Hernndez (February 7, 1914  October 18, 1978) ... Joseph Hansen, was later accused by Trotsky's followers as being "a double agent of the ... This man has a story to tell. ... Joseph Stalin presented Ramn's mother Caridad with the Order of Lenin for her...
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The Water's Edge  TWE Remembers: Learning More About the ...  Oct 16, 2012 ... In a memoir published one year after his assassination, Robert ... history of the world's most dangerous weapons to the Cuban missile ... David Coleman looks beyond the agreement that Kennedy and Khrushchev struck on October 28, ... If you don't trust how Hollywood portrays the events of October 1962...
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The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge: Nic Dunlop ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. Long preoccupied by the Cambodian genocide in ... It is an attempt to find out what actually happened in Pol Pot's Cambodia and why; to understand .... I'm sure this book will still be consulted 100 years from now, and for that I salute mr. .... Survival in the Killing Fields Paperback.
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The My Lai Massacre - The New Yorker  Jan 22, 1972 ... The first investigations of the My Lai case, made by some of the officers ... Ronald L. Ridenhour wrote letters to the Pentagon, to the State Department, ... In May, 1971, fourteen months after the initial Peers report, officials were...
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Uganda: Human rights violations by the National Resistance Army ...  Dec 3, 1991 ... These arrests illustrate how the rule of law is being routinely abused in Uganda ... The 18 northern leaders were beaten by soldiers before they were brought to court on 7 May. ... In late May 1991 soldiers are reported to have shot dead a ... One entitled Uganda: The Human Rights Record 1986-1989 and...
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution - Google Books  Jun 1, 2004 ... In June of 1969, a series of riots over police action at The Stonewall Inn, a small, dank, mob-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York changed the ... From an era when lesbians and gays were routinely closeted and in ... On the sultry summer night of June 27, 1969, what began as a routine police raid on...
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'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi: Read the 1974 L.A. Times book ...  Jun 9, 2015 ... Vincent Bugliosi speaks to reporters after Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, ... True Story of the Manson Murders" was published in 1974, it was as much a ... of masterminding the brutal attacks, which took place in the summer of 1969. ... that he believed was prophesized in the Beatles' song "Helter Skelter.".
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The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel - The New York Times  During the last years I've learned a good deal about crime, and the origins of the .... Then one morning in November, 1959, while flicking through The New York Times, ... How much research did you do other than through interviews with the .... He didn't like it because he said the crime wasn't committed in cold blood.
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APUSH 1963-present Flashcards | Quizlet  Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. ... These officials secretly sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages being held in the Middle East. ... More than 200 U.S. Marines were killed in 1983 by a truck bomb at their barracks in this Mideast capital.
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November 18, 1978 . Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples ...  Nov 18, 1978 ... When Guyanese authorities arrived at Jonestown on November 19, 1978, the ... several relatives of Peoples Temple members, and the news media covering ... He had been attacked by a man with a knife, but other Peoples...