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Paul David Meadlo recalled the briefing his company received from Captain Medina the afternoon before the assault. Medina told the men, Meadlo testified, that all the My Lai villagers were "Viet Cong or Viet Cong sympathizers, and we were supposed to kill everything there -women, children, livestock." Three defense witnesses corroborated that...
...radio-telephone operator and now a salesman of ladies' luggage, was the first to testify last week. His tale was one of continuing horror. He recalled coming upon a group of 30 or 40 Vietnamese civilians gathered at an intersection and under guard by former Pfc. Paul Meadlo. (Meadlo has so far refused to testify at the trial, claiming the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.) According to Sledge, Calley went up to Meadlo and ordered him to "waste 'em, and Meadlo started shooting into the people−about ten feet away." Next, "someone hollered that Sergeant [David] Mitchell...
...nothing to diminish the stark picture drawn by Sledge. From a position some 75 yds. from the drainage ditch, he was witness to much of the killing there. His testimony clarifies some of the discrepancies between earlier versions of what took place. He, too, swore that both Calley and Meadlo had fired at groups of civilians. "Continually," he said, "small groups of people were brought up, and they would be put into the ditch and fired upon by Lieut. Calley...
...recently applied for a job as a New York City cop. He reinforced the testimony of both Sledge and Turner, then added a weird example of the kind of transformation that men in combat can undergo. At one point, Dursi related, having rounded up a group of civilians, "Meadlo had them sitting on a dike [near the trail]. He was playing with the kids, giving them C-rations and candy like we always did." Calley arrived and asked Meadlo, "Why haven't you wasted them?" As Dursi moved away, he heard automatic gunfire coming from Meadlo's area...
Vast Confusion. Chances are that Prosecutor Daniel is no longer counting on Meadlo's testimony. Daniel plans to conclude his case this week by calling to the witness stand other members of the Calley platoon. The defense has in cross-examination tried to raise the possibility that artillery fire or helicopter strafing inflicted the casualties. Also, two witnesses said that they found a rifle near the body of one Vietnamese. Another, contradicting all the other testimony, said that he believed that some hostile fire was directed at the G.I.s. But the defense has not begun to make its real...