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See other Historical Articles Title: A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today
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Los Angeles Times
URL Source: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op- ... h-thompson-20180316-story.html
Published: Mar 24, 2023
Author: Jon Wiener
Post Date: 2023-03-24 00:20:05 by Charles_Byrd
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Everybody's heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot. When he arrived, American soldiers had already killed 504 Vietnamese civilians (that's the Vietnamese count; the U.S. Army said 347). They were going to kill more, but they didn't — because of what Thompson did. I met Thompson in 2000 and interviewed him for my radio program on KPFK in Los Angeles. He told the story of what happened that day, when he and his two-man crew flew over My Lai, in support of troops who were looking for Viet Cong fighters. Click for Full Text! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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