Word: drumhead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...camera crews laid daily siege to Lance as he left his home in the morning or his office at night. A small army of pushy reporters thrust long microphone rods into his face and asked the most impertinent questions, hoping to elicit an off-guard response. This is a drumhead trial, and few of those who are subjected to such a process escape unscathed. A print reporter who finds a rumor to be unfounded usually does not refer to it in print; but a television reporter's unverified insinuation, heard on-camera, lingers in the audience...
...bloodbaths or reprisals. Some refugees reported public stonings as well as scattered executions. In Danang, a policeman was beheaded in the marketplace soon after the Communist forces arrived, and the Viet Cong tied several captured ARVN soldiers together and blew them up with grenades. In Hué, after a drumhead court-martial, five policemen were shot. None of the refugees, however, reported mass executions similar to those during the 1968 Tet offensive, when about 2,000 civilians were slaughtered in Hué alone and tossed into common graves...