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...sudden susurrus of shock ran through the Fort Hood, Texas, military courtroom. Defense Attorney Ossie Brown reacted as if someone had pinched his neck. The defendant, burly Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, 30, the first of the 17 soldiers so far charged in connection with the deaths of the My Lai villagers, stared in uncomprehending disbelief. Last week, just six hours and three witnesses into the proceedings, the lanky prosecutor, Captain Michael Swan, rose to say: "Your Honor, the prosecution rests its case...
...appeared to be a premature rest. Though known to have subpoenaed 14 witnesses, seven of whom were on hand, Swan called only three former platoon mates of Mitchell's to the stand. The other witnesses, including two helicopter pilots and an agent who investigated My Lai for the Army, waited in vain to testify. Surrounded by reporters afterward, the 28-year-old prosecutor was peppered with questions. Did he think he had proved his case against Mitchell? "I sure do." Why had he rested his case so suddenly? "I felt it was advantageous to do so." Had he checked...
Seven in Reserve. The prosecution's case was hampered by the refusal of Louisiana Representative F. Edward Hebert to release testimony by four key prosecution witnesses who had appeared before his House Armed Services subcommittee investigation of My Lai earlier this year. The judge, Colonel George R. Robinson, ruled that the prosecution could not call witnesses who had testified before the subcommittee on the subject unless their previous testimony had been made available...
...first Esquire article does not carry Calley through the My Lai attack, but after he was charged with the multiple murders, he clung to that same sense of duty: "Well, the war's wrong. Killing's wrong. But that's what my country asked...
...would come up to him and say that they were on his side. "What can I say if a gentleman tells me, 'I know you're right,' if I have an inner conflict and I myself don't know it? Maybe the mission in My Lai was wrong. What is a V.C.? Is a man with a hand grenade a V.C.? Someone who houses him, is that a V.C.? I'm home now and I hear people saying, 'Everyone there is a V.C.' Are these people right? Maybe so. I hear people screaming...