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Ronald L. Haeberle

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28,000 after a series of storms and tropical depressions devastated areas of central Vietnam. Haeberle said, "I have been committed to doing all I can to help the people of Vietnam ever since I personally witnessed American war crimes at My Lai." The RENEW project works to remove and destroy unexploded bombs remaining from the war, teaches children to avoid contact with cluster bombs and other dangerous explosives, and assists the innocent victims still suffering from the war. In March 2023, Haeberle visited a secondary school in Quang Ngai City, near where the massacre occurred, and gave 100 Project RENEW "gift sets to the students, each containing a school bag, pen pouch, and a raincoat."
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destroyed the negative." He felt his photographs would never have seen the light of day if he had turned them in. It was confirmed in the U.S. Army's own investigation that Haeberle had, in fact, been reprimanded for taking pictures which "were detrimental to the United States Army." Fear was on his mind as well; as he explained to a reporter, he feared the troops "might have shot him, too, had he stood in their way." And he wasn't just worried about himself. "We had other servicemen in the Public Information Office and Jay still had a year to go. Something could have happened to one of the people in our office. Their lives would be in danger, easily disposed of, it's called '
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also met with survivors of the massacre. In 2011 he met Duc Tran Van—"Duc was 8 years old in March 1968, and as Haeberle spoke with him, through an interpreter, he realized with a jolt that the woman he had photographed dead years earlier was Duc’s mother, Nguyen Thi Tau." (see photograph 3 above) Duc told Haeberle that his mother had told him to try to escape "carrying his fourteen-month-old little sister, Ha, who had been wounded in the abdomen." When Duc heard a helicopter above them, he threw himself to the ground covering his sister.
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newsletter. He also sent official photos and news releases about the brigade's soldiers to hometown newspapers. In late 1967 his brigade was sent to Vietnam. Haeberle only had a little over four months left on his two year draft obligation, and could have stayed in Hawaii, but volunteered to go to Vietnam with the brigade. While in Vietnam, he continued his public information duties recording routine official events - all that was about to change.
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public should know what actually happened, what actually went on, transpired." He was asked again, "You say you wanted the public to know?" and he said "Yes." When asked again he said, "I just wanted to get if off my chest, let the people know exactly what happened." He described how as he found out more about what happened that day he "became more disgusted." He decided to approach the editor of his college newspaper who had become a writer for
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including "17 pregnant women and 210 children under the age of 13." A number of enlarged versions of Haeberle's photos are shown inside the museum. The images are dramatically backlit in color and share the central back wall with a life-size recreation of American soldiers "rounding up and shooting cowering villagers." The museum also celebrates American heroes, including
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that....which means Vietnamese whore. I remember them kicking the old woman right in the ass. She was down on the ground a couple of times, slapping her around.... I just started to turn to walk away to the outside of the village, well, all of a sudden I heard fire, out of the corner of my eyes I could see the people dropping, which started to make me sick.
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Took 504 Souls, And Shook the World." The display includes, for the first time anywhere, all 18 of his color photos from the massacre. The first showing, at the University of San Diego, was in March 2022. The second was at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau during the months of November and December 2022.
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Feher himself recalled that he did not obtain 'hard evidence that something real bad had happened' until he interviewed Ronald Haeberle on 25 August and was shown Haeberle's photographs of the massacre victims.(p.36) ...the interview indicated to Pentagon officials that news of the massacre could not
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book tour and exhibit ("U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War") which has visited colleges and universities around the United States. Haeberle wrote the section of the book on the Mỹ Lai massacre. His photos are shown in a separate display due to their graphic nature—"My Lai: A Massacre That
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As became clear during the investigations, this was not an unusual sentiment among U.S. troops. Another member of Charlie Company present at Mỹ Lai explained: "You'd expect if you had knowledge of a murder, it would be incumbent on you to do something about it. But there wasn't an avenue to do it and
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in Honolulu, Hawaii. When the brigade commander found out he had majored in photography, he was reassigned to a newly formed public information office for the brigade. Here he took pictures of training exercises, award ceremonies and other facets of daily Army life which were published in the brigade
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At the time of the massacre, Haeberle was a sergeant assigned as public information photographer to Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment. With him were three cameras: two Army issued black and white cameras for official photos and his own personal camera containing color slide film.
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and he returned to the area of the massacre for the first time. The massacre has "been etched in his mind", and every time he returns to the Mỹ Lai area he "feels emotional." He goes there "out of respect for the survivors and those who lost their lives during the four hours I was in Sơn Mỹ". He has
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He responded that "he had never considered" turning in his personal color photos. He explained, "If a general is smiling wrong in a photograph, I have learned to destroy it.... My experience as a G.I. over there is that if something doesn’t look right, a general smiling the wrong way...I stopped and
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As he explained during the Congressional investigation, this is when he decided to go to his local newspaper. He was asked a number of times why he had gone to the press. He described how the Army had called and said "Don't do it," but that he decided to publish anyway. He explained "I just felt the
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magazine) published it, along with a half-dozen others, the images graphically undercut much of what the U.S. had been claiming for years about the conduct and aims of the conflict. Anti-war protesters needed no persuading, but 'average' Americans were suddenly asking, What are we doing in Vietnam?"
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On March 15, 1968, he was briefed about Charlie Company's planned operation the next day in the area near a small hamlet called Mỹ Lai. As a "short-timer" with just over a week to go, he could have opted out of the mission, but again volunteered to go. Early the next morning a helicopter dropped him
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At the center of the museum grounds, which is at the heart of the destroyed village, is a large stone monument. The two children to the lower right in the sculpture are modeled on the two children in one of Haeberle's photos, often called "Two Children on a Trail". As mentioned above, they have now
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By chance, Haeberle had photographed that moment as well (see image on left with Duc on top protecting his sister Thu Ha Tran). Haeberle had assumed that the two children he had photographed on the trail that day had been killed. He has since also met the sister Ha, and a third surviving sister My,
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Haeberle was criticized by the Army and Congressional investigations into the massacre for not reporting what he witnessed or turning in his color photographs. The Army's report said he "withheld and suppressed from proper authorities the photographic evidence of atrocities he had obtained" despite
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with his photos and story. During this time, he created a slideshow and gave talks about his experiences to civic groups and a high school. "The first slides he showed were innocuous: troops with smiling Vietnamese kids; medics helping villagers. Then images of dead and mutilated women and children
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In their historical overview of the massacre, James Olson and Randy Roberts compile information about sexual violence from the Peers Inquiry to produce a list of 20 acts of rape based on eyewitness testimony. The victims documented on this list ranged from age 10-45. Of these women and girls, nine
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Haeberle has helped raise money for several humanitarian efforts in Vietnam, including for the relief of flood and typhoon victims, and for Project RENEW, which works to make Vietnam safe from unexploded American bombs and mines that still remain in the country. In 2021 he led an effort to raise $
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I knew it was something that shouldn't be happening but yet I was part of it. I think I was in a kind of daze from seeing all these shooting and not seeing any return fire. Yet the killings kept going on. The Americans were rounding up the people and shooting them, not taking any prisoners. It was
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Years later, Haeberle admitted that he had destroyed a few of photographs he took during the massacre. Unlike the photographs of the dead bodies, the destroyed photographs depicted American soldiers in the process of murdering Vietnamese civilians. "I destroyed two images. They were of a couple of
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There were two small children, a very young boy and a smaller boy, maybe 4 or 5 years old. A guy with an M16 fired at them, at the first boy, and the older boy fell over to protect the smaller boy. The GI fired some more shots with a tracer and the tip somehow seemed to be still burning the boy's
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During his senior year in 1966 he reduced his classes to part-time not realizing this made him eligible for the draft. At that time the U.S. military was drafting large numbers of young men to expand the war in Vietnam. In fact, 1966 was the high water mark for the number of men who were inducted
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There were some South Vietnamese people, maybe 15 of them, women and children included; walking on a dirt road maybe 100 yards away. All of a sudden the GIs just opened up with M16's. Besides the M16 fire, they were shooting at the people with M79 grenade launchers. I couldn't believe what I was
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More or less tormenting these people, especially that woman in front. They were grabbing her, and kicking her around. And I believe it to be the girl behind her that they were trying to rip off her blouse, but I don't believe they succeeded. Sort of fondling her, yelling "VC," "Boom, boom," and
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The second is the Sơn Mỹ Memorial Museum which is located at the site of the massacre and includes the remains of the village of Sơn Mỹ in Quảng Ngãi Province. A large black marble plaque just inside the entrance to the museum lists the names of all 504 civilians killed by the American troops,
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that "He couldn't stand what was going on". He personally witnessed U.S. soldiers mechanically kill as many as 100 Vietnamese civilians, "many of them women and babies, many left in lifeless clumps." The photos he took provided "horrifying images of piled dead bodies and frightened Vietnamese
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I came up to a clump of bodies and I saw this small child. Part of his foot had been shot off, and he went up to this pile of bodies and just looked at it, like he was looking for somebody. A GI knelt down beside me and shot the little kid. His body flew backwards into the pile.
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During or subsequent to the briefing, LTC Barker ordered the commanders of C/1-20 Inf, and possibly B/4-3 Inf, to burn the houses, kill the livestock, destroy foodstuffs and perhaps to close the wells. No instructions were issued as to the safeguarding of noncombatants found
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The Army Journalist, Specialist 5th Class Jay Roberts, who was with Haeberle that day, recalled the same scene and "stated that the older woman, who he presumed to be the girl’s mother, had been 'biting and kicking and scratching and fighting off' the group of soldiers."
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on March 16, 1968. The photographs were definitive evidence of a massacre, making it impossible for the U.S. Army or government to ignore or cover up. On November 21, 1969, the day after the photographs were first published in Haeberle's hometown newspaper,
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As Tran Van Duc and his sister Tran Thi Ha escaped from the armed men carrying out a grisly massacre, a helicopter flew low over them. Duc threw himself on his sister to protect her. Ronald L. Haeberle, a combat photographer on duty Vietnam, captured that
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We met no resistance and I only saw three captured weapons. We had no casualties. It was just like any other Vietnamese village-old Papa-Sans, women and kids. As a matter of fact, I don't remember seeing one military-age male in the entire place, dead or
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Off to the right, I noticed a woman appeared from some cover and this one GI fired first at her, then they all started shooting at her, aiming at her head. The bones were flying in the air chip by chip. I'd never seen American shoot civilians like that.
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you certainly had second thoughts about taking that kind of a stand.... You got to remember that everybody there has a gun in his hand.... I wasn't prepared to single myself out at that point. You feel like a pretty small pawn in a great big game."
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villagers." In all, a little over 500 unarmed people were killed, including men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children who were as young as 10.
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The Vietnam War produced thousands of shocking photographs of death and destruction, but few scenes were more disturbing than the horrific color picture of dozens of dead South Vietnamese women and children taken by combat photographer Ronald
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Haeberle was born and raised in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. In high school he played football and ran track, graduating in the spring of 1960. In 1962, he began attending Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he majored in photography.
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The Vietnamese people and government have expressed their appreciation to Haeberle for helping to bring the massacre to the attention of the world, as well as for the humanitarian work he does in Vietnam. On the 50th anniversary of the
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poster, which was distributed around the world, reproduced in newspapers, and used in protest marches. Even though there were many other massacres by U.S. forces during the war, this image and Mỹ Lai itself came to represent them all.
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I had emotional feelings. I felt nauseated to see people treated this way. American GIs were supposed to be protecting people and rehabilitating them and I had seen that. But this was incredible. I watched it and it wouldn't sink in.
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The GIs found a group of people—mothers, children, and their daughters. This GI grabbed one of the girls...and started stripping her, playing around. They said they wanted to see what she was made of and stuff like that.
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magazine described the impact of this photo best: "Haeberle’s picture of terror and distress on these faces, young and old, in the midst of slaughter remains one of the 20th century’s most powerful photographs. When the
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The official Army press dispatch on the operation said the VC body count was 128 and there was no mention of civilian casualties. "US TROOPS SURROUND REDS, KILL 128," was the headline in the American military newspaper
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On December 5, 1969, Walter Cronkite, on the CBS Evening News, issued a warning about disturbing images Haeberle's photos were broadcast. According to PBS, "The horrific images immediately cause a country-wide uproar."
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for the military arm of the National Front for the Liberation of the South (NLF). He recalled nothing being said about how to interact with the Vietnamese people, the people they were supposedly helping. In fact, as
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completely different to my concept of what war is all about." "I felt I wanted to do something to stop this.... I asked some soldiers: "Why?" They more or less shrugged their shoulders and kept on with the killing."
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When Haeberle's shocking photographs of their atrocities were published — more than a year later — the pictures laid bare an appalling truth: American "boys" were as capable of unbridled savagery as any soldiers,
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He also knew and wanted others to know that it wasn't just Mỹ Lai: "Everybody said, Oh it was Charlie Company, Charlie Company. But what about B Company, where ninety-plus civilians were massacred in My Khe?"
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filled the screen. 'There was just disbelief,' Haeberle said of the reaction. 'People said, "No, no, no. This cannot have happened."'" "One woman said it was a staged production. No one wanted to accept it."
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published his color photos and eye-witness account of what he had seen, the public in the United States and around the world was able to see and learn the shocking details of the massacre for the first time.
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Medina briefed his men that they were to kill all guerrilla and North Vietnamese combatants, including "suspects" (including women and children, as well as all animals), to burn the village, and pollute the
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who escaped from under a pile of bodies. The four have become friends (see image of all four at right). Since Haeberle took the last photo of Duc's mother, he gave Duc the historic camera he used that day.
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The pictures, taken by a US Army combat photographer, were horrifying. Piles of bodies, looks of terror on Vietnamese faces as they stared at certain death, a man shoved down a well, homes set ablaze.
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Incredibly, the world at large might have never learned about the death and torture visited by American troops upon the villagers at My Lai had it not been for an Army photographer named Ron Haeberle.
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and his three cameras into some rice paddies near a village. He had no idea anything unusual would be happening that day - a day that was later called "the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War".
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asked him if he ever heard anything that he could identify as enemy fire. Haeberle responded, "No.... the only American casualty I believe that I witnessed, is that person who...shot in the foot.
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concluded, "because of Haeberle’s photographs — it remains the emblematic massacre of the war." In other words, Haeberle's photos made all the difference—they were that important. Despite it all,
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In mid-August 1969, the Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) questioned Haeberle. The Army was facing mounting pressure caused by letters written to thirty members of Congress, plus the
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It was the color photographs he took that day that provided evidence of the massacre and elevated the story of My Lai to world-wide prominence. A year after Haeberle returned to his hometown of
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magazine revisited the publication of Haeberle's photos. Mỹ Lai, they observed, was "hardly the only instance of rape or murder by U.S. troops in Vietnam." In fact, as Nick Turse summarized in
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Years later Haeberle recalled that his unit received only a one hour briefing on the people and situation in Vietnam. It focused on the dangers they would face and warned of
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In a hotel room in Ohio, before a stunned investigator, Haeberle projected on a hung-up bedsheet horrifying images of piled dead bodies and frightened Vietnamese villagers.
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When Haeberle arrived in the area by helicopter he began moving forward with Charlie Company and was soon witnessing scenes he has "never been able to forget". He told
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A woman shot in the head by U.S. soldiers. In 2011, Haeberle learned that this woman was the mother of three My Lai survivors who he got to know (see below for more).
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He partially recorded one of these incidents in one of his most dramatic photographs, which was taken just before the women and children in the photo were killed.
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I remember they were keeping the mother away from protecting her daughter—she must have been around 13—by kicking the mother in the rear and slapping her around.
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In the first photo, an American soldier adds fuel to a fire under orders to burn down houses. He is using baskets the Vietnamese used to dry rice and roots.
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I left the village around 11 o'clock that morning. I saw clumps of bodies, and I must have seen as many as a hundred killed. It was done very businesslike.
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Eleven days later, Haeberle left Vietnam for the United States and life as a civilian. With him were his undeveloped color photos of the Mỹ Lai Massacre.
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GIs, where you could identify them doing the killing. I figured, why should I implicate them—we're all guilty—there were one hundred-plus of us there."
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There was no reaction on the guy doing the shooting. That's the part that really got me—this little girl pleading and they were just cut down.
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Up to this point Mr Haeberle's year in Vietnam with the Public Information Office had mainly consisted of recording official events.
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Investigations, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Armed Services Investigating Subcommittee (1976).
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The campaign was organized by Ron Haeberle, the American photographer best known for capturing the My Lai Massacre in 1968
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In their conversation on Nov. 21, 1969, about the My Lai massacre, Mr. Laird told Mr. Kissinger that while he would like
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Currently Haeberle's photos are on display in two prominent museums in Vietnam. The first is in Ho Chi Minh City at the
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer Front Page on November 20, 1969 exposing the Mỹ Lai massacre to the world for the first time.
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After basic training, he was trained as a mortarman and was then given orders to report to the 11th Infantry Brigade at
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Ridenhour's letter spurred the inspector general of the Army, Gen. William Enemark, to launch a fact-finding mission
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I couldn't take a picture of it, it was too much. One minute you see people alive and the next minute they're dead.
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Mr. Stratton: You said that you had two black and white cameras and one color camera. Mr. Haeberle: That is right.
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Fifty years ago today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer...published shocking photos of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
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I turned my back because I couldn't look. They opened up with two M16's. On automatic fire...35, 40 shots.
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was asked "Are we supposed to kill women and children?" Medina's reply was, "Kill everything that moves."
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One of Haeberle's photos became an iconic symbol of the massacre, in large part because of its use in the
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were under the age of eighteen. Many of these assaults were gang rapes and many involved sexual torture.
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The name is said to have first been used by South Vietnamese Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem to belittle the rebels.
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When he testified before Congress in April 1970 he added additional information about what he had seen:
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A man and two children who were killed despite soldiers being told they were not part of the Viet Cong.
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Report of the Department of the Army Review of the Preliminary Investigations into the My Lai Incident
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Haeberle's photos have been exhibited as a part of two of the most recent university stops on the
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Ronald Haeberle had no idea that anything out of the ordinary would happen on this assignment.
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Sergeant (SGT), Information Office, 11th Infantry Brigade (31st Public Information Detachment)
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The result was industrial-scale slaughter, the equivalent, he said, to a 'My Lai each month'.
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Visitors to the War Remnants Museum view enlarged photos of the massacre by Ronald Haeberle.
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The Viet Cong body count was listed as 128 and there was no mention of civilian casualties.
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The Vietnam War on Trial: The My Lai Massacre and the Court-Martial of Lieutenant Calley
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Haeberle has returned to Vietnam numerous times. In 2000 he biked 646 miles from Hue to
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During his Congressional testimony he described additional incidents he had witnessed:
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described him as "thoughtful", a "plainspoken man" who "never sought the spotlight".
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Women and children before being killed by American GIs. Photo by Ronald L. Haeberle.
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Mỹ Lai was actually the name of only one of two hamlets in the village of Sơn Mỹ in
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Project RENEW - works to make Vietnam safe from unexploded American bombs and mines
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Ronald L Haeberle with My Lai survivors Thu Ha Tran, Thi My Tran & Duc Tran Van
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This museum is the city's most popular attraction but not for the faint-hearted.
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My Lai massacre survivors - two children on a trail. Photo by Ronald L. Haeberle
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Investigation of the My Lai Incident, Ninety-First Congress, Second Session
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Investigation of the My Lai Incident, Ninety-First Congress, Second Session
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Plain Dealer exclusive in 1969: My Lai massacre photos by Ronald Haeberle
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Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War
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