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Will the agonizing aftermath of My Lai never end? Last week the court-martial of Captain Ernest L. Medina, Lieut. William Galley's superior officer, pressed painfully on. It seemed less and less likely that anyone would ever know for sure who was responsible for what on the bloody day of March...
...permission) even after his confinement. The rush into print is probably due to the fact that public opinion still can influence Calley's case. Collaborator Sack has an avowed bias in Calley's favor-in fact, he still faces contempt charges for not testifying at the court-martial. Though Sack claims every word in print is Calley's own he admits, in the introduction, to asking more questions (10,000) than there are sentences in the book. With all its faults the book was worth producing. It brings together in all too fallible human terms the accumulation...
...reduction in Galley's sentence was announced at Fort McPherson outside Atlanta, where Charlie Company's commander, Captain Ernest L. Medina, is in the second week of his long-awaited court-martial. Army prosecutors are attempting to convict Medina of command responsibility for what went on in the ill-fated village. Relaxed and apparently unconcerned as the men who once served under him take the stand to testify for the prosecution, Medina passes his courtroom time drawing doodles of the newsmen covering his trial. As Medina and Calley await the results of the legal proceedings against them...
...charitable way of viewing the waves of public anger generated by the conviction of Lieut. William L. Galley Jr. last March is to assume that too few Americans were fully aware of what really was established at his court-martial. The 45 days of testimony by 104 witnesses were indeed confusing, repetitious, and often contradictory. Yet it is difficult to believe that any reasonable man can now read New York Times Reporter Richard Hammer's expert though impassioned distillation of the trial proceedings and still feel that the six jurors -all combat veterans acting against their own instincts...
Violated Conventions. Eventually, claims Hammer, the outgunned defense tried to turn the court-martial into a near trial of Galley's commander, Captain Ernest L. Medina. The defense produced soldiers who claimed that Medina had ordered the slaughter of civilians. Calley, it was argued, had no choice; he could not disobey his superior. Medina denied giving such orders, and the Army's young prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel III, was able to draw from a surprising number of defense witnesses the admission that they had disobeyed Galley's order to fire into the assembled groups of civilians...