Word: calley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WILLIAM CALLEY...
Convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre, Lieut. Calley was released from house arrest in Fort Benning, Ga., in 1974 after serving one-third of a ten-year sentence. Calley, 41, settled in nearby Columbus, Ga., where he is a sales manager in his father-in-law's V.V. Vick jewelry store...
...times of crisis. At any given moment, we expect to find that the person who should be in charge really is running the show. That person, in turn, is deemed accountable for any initiatives taken and eventually suffers the consequences if those initiatives are condemned by the public. William Calley, the man who ordered his troops to slaughter the inhabitants of My Lai, can attest to that. So can Richard Nixon...
...even made plans to direct the first Vietnam feature, "Although it was written more than six years ago," he wrote to film historian Juliam Smith of his script, The Rifle, "it has all the ingredients of that flavor of war right up to the end--including a Calley flavor." His central character was "a symbol of war through generations--who ends up killing a Viet Cong boy--a boy he fell in love with--a boy he wanted to adopt and take back to the States--because the Army...commanded him to murder the civilian boy only because...
...even made plans to direct the first Vietnam feature, "Although it was written more than six years ago," he wrote to film historian Juliam Smith of his script, The Rifle, "it has all the ingredients of that flavor of war right up to the end--including a Calley flavor." His central character was "a symbol of war through generations--who ends up killing a Viet Cong boy--a boy he fell in love with--a boy he wanted to adopt and take back to the States--because the Army...commanded him to murder the civilian boy only because...