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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lunch Break. Few were spared. Stragglers were shot down as they fled from their burning huts. One soldier fired his M-79 grenade launcher into a clump of bodies in which some Vietnamese were still alive. One chilling incident was observed by Ronald L. Haeberle, 28, the Army combat photographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MY LAI MASSACRE | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Most of the shooting had died down by the time the men of the other two platoons filed into the hamlet. Sergeant Terry told newsmen that he and his squad were settling down for some chow when they noticed that some Vietnamese in a pile of bodies in a nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MY LAI MASSACRE | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

In 1914, Kennedy realized another ambition. He married Rose Fitzgerald, the lithe, convent-schooled daughter of Boston's ebullient Mayor John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald. Borrowing $2,000 for a down payment, Kennedy bought a nine-room frame house in the Brookline section of Boston. The family needed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: DEATH OF THE FOUNDER | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

The Kennedys are plausibly said to be unaware of exactly what they own and where it is: the income matters, not the capital. Informed estimates of the wealth cluster around $400 million, putting the Kennedys well down on the list of the nation's richest dynasties. The fortune is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where the Kennedy Money Is | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

In his heyday in Wall Street and Hollywood, Kennedy was an aggressive, though never reckless in-and-out operator. By about 1949, however, he had decided against further risk-taking. Jack was looking beyond his safe seat in Congress, and so was his father. Joe Kennedy told his advisers to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where the Kennedy Money Is | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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