U.S. v. Henderson.

1971 U.S. vs. Henderson Court Martial Archive - My Lai Massacre

Date d'édition : 1971

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Very good. 37 volumes that measure 43 linear inches, or 3.58 linear feet. Volumes are not uniform thickness. Some volumes have front cover removed or wear to binding. Includes color and black and white photographs, folded maps and aerial photographs, and thousands of pages of text. Size 17 x 12 Inches. This is a 37-volume archive of documents from the 1971 My Lai Massacre court-martial of Colonel Oran K. Henderson. Henderson was the highest-ranking officer tried in connection with My Lai, one of the most horrific events in American military history, and the last soldier to face a court-martial. The court-martial lasted 62 days and on December 17, 1971, Henderson was found not guilty. Henderson's court-martial ties for the longest court-martial in U.S. Army history with that of Lieutenant William Calley, the only member of the U.S. Army found guilty in connection with My Lai. My Lai Massacre The My Lai Massacre took place on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. It is one of the most notorious events in U.S. military history. A unit of the American Army, Charlie Company led by Lt. William Calley, descended on the hamlet of My Lai in South Vietnam with the belief that it was harboring Viet Cong soldiers. Over the course of a few hours, American soldiers systematically killed and raped between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women, children, and elderly. The event was initially covered up, but once exposed, it intensified anti-war sentiment in the United States and globally. Lt. Calley was the only one found guilty and was sentenced to life in prison, though his sentence was later reduced, and he served just three and a half years under house arrest. The Archive Consisting of 37 volumes, the archive breaks down as follows Investigating Officer's Report: Volumes 1 and 2 (410 pages) Testimony: Volumes 3 - 12 (1256 pages) Indexes: Volume 13 (39 pages) Exhibits 1 - 200-1: Volumes 14 - 31. (Includes maps, photographs, and thousands of pages of text) Background Exhibits: Volumes 32 - 37 A Closer Look at the Exhibits Some of the exhibits are visually quite astounding. Exhibit 195, for example, is a large two-sheet wall map of My Lai (4) that marks buildings, roads, and other locations within the hamlet. Over a dozen folding aerial photographs bearing notations appear throughout and trace the events of March 16 as a visual representation of some of the witnesses' testimony. Exhibit 179 is Volume 1 of the Report of the Department of the Army Review of the Preliminary Investigations . Photographs Four exhibits (7, 9, 18, and 94) are photographs, both color and black and white. Exhibit 7 is 47 color and black and white photographs of the massacre, taken by Specialist Ronald L. Haeberle, of the 11th Brigade Public Information Detachment, who was at My Lai that day because command had said that Public Information soldiers should be at all major operations. Haeberle volunteered to go on the mission and took three cameras with him. Two Army cameras loaded with black and white film and one personal camera, loaded with his own color film. Haeberle developed the color film one month after getting out of the Army. He testified that the photographs in Exhibit 7 'are a fair and accurate representation of what he saw on 16 March 1968' (Volume 4 Page 295). Exhibits 63 and 64 are aerial photographs marking where these photographs were taken. Photocopies of Ronald Haeberle's black and white contact sheets (Exhibits 65 and 66) are included. Exhibit 9 is one color photograph of the massacre. Other photographs that may not have been taken by Haeberle are included as well. Among these are Exhibit 18, a photograph of two soldiers, and Exhibit 94, two photographs taken from a helicopter, showing My Lai burning. The Charges Against Colonel Oran K. Henderson After an investigation, on February 26, 1971, the Army announced that Colonel Henderson faced formal charges and a court-martial. Per the Investigating Officer's Report included in this ar.

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• Titre: U.S. v. Henderson.
• Date de parution: 1971
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