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...Clip. Despite testimony to the contrary, Calley said he never joined other soldiers in killing a group of Vietnamese at an intersection of trails where about 30 are said to have died. He admitted to two other incidents. "I just saw a head moving through the rice and fired." It turned out to be a small boy. Later, Calley said, he "butt-stroked" a man in white garb, possibly a monk. He denied the claims of other witnesses that he blew off the man's head...
...Calley also denied a charge that he seized a child by the arm, threw him into the ditch and shot him. He claimed that the entire day he did not expend one full M-16 ammunition clip, customarily loaded with 18 rounds. "I felt then and I still do," Calley concluded, "that I acted as I was directed and that I carried out the orders that I was given, and I do not feel wrong in doing so, sir." Meadlo testified earlier that at the ditch alone, Calley used 10 to 15 clips...
This week the prosecution will call witnesses in rebuttal, after which the case will go to the jurors. Calley could receive the death penalty or life imprisonment if convicted of the premeditated murder of any one of 102 Vietnamese. If the jurors, all infantry officers with combat experience themselves, decide that Calley was only partially responsible, they could reduce the charges. Conceivably, he could go free. Psychiatrists testifying for the defense have argued that Calley was mentally impaired because of combat stress; other psychiatrists called by the prosecution said he was able to premeditate murder at the time...
...Last week it was announced that for failing, among other things, "to conduct a proper and thorough investigation" of the incident, Colonel Oran K. Henderson, former commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, will be tried by a general court-martial. Of those charged, all have been freed except Henderson, Calley, Medina and Captain Eugene M. Kotouc, who did not participate in the raid but is accused of having assaulted a Vietnamese during interrogation just after...
...could accept such a defense, Calley and Medina, the only actual participants still charged, could both be acquitted on the ground that they were following apparently lawful orders from Colonel Frank Barker, their task force commander, who died three months after My Lai. Thus My Lai could conceivably enter history as a massacre for which no one is legally held responsible. Calley, who is well aware that he was his own best witness at the trial, considers himself by now an expert on the horrors of war. He has said that he would some day like to make a combat...