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After joining the Atlanta Bureau, Range was picked to cover Galley personally. He is close to Galley's age, and they share a taste for good food and drink. They first met three weeks after the trial started last year and subsequently had dozens of conversations, many over meals...
Extralegal Ingredient. The President was deeply troubled by the Galley case. He awoke in his San Clemente bedroom at 2 a.m., made some notes, and next morning called in his senior aides to consult about what could be done. His first decision was to intervene as Commander in Chief to...
Ashen, Calley marched off to the Fort Benning stockade. The next afternoon he was back before the court-martial to make a final statement before sentencing. Choking back tears, occasionally gasping for breath, Calley spoke first strongly, then in a breaking voice. "Yesterday you stripped me of all my honor...
Calley, 27, was convicted Monday by a military jury at Ft. Benning, Ga., of the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese old men, women and children at My Lai. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor.
Just as the testimony at one trial was ending at Fort Benning, more atrocities were being described 100 miles away at Atlanta's Fort McPherson. Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, a 40-year-old veteran of combat in Korea and Viet Nam, was drafting military charges against a general...