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...those charged in the March 1968 massacre. In Hutto's court-martial and in the separate trial of Lieut. William Calley, the emphasis was on passing the buck upward toward the commanders who directed the assault on My Lai. The names of superiors, among them Company Commander Ernest Medina, Task Force Commander Frank Barker (who was killed three months after My Lai) and Brigade Commander Oran K. Henderson, were mentioned on the witness stand...
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...
...Dennis R. Vasquez, who was a witness at both trials last week, gave some of the most damaging testimony against the officers so far. Vasquez was an artillery air observer flying in Lieut. Colonel Barker's helicopter that morning. He reported landing inside the village, where Barker and Medina conferred. According to Vasquez, Barker told Medina that "everything was going fine, going smooth, going to plan." The day before, Vasquez recalled, there had been a meeting of officers in which Colonel Henderson urged his brigade officers to "go in there aggressively, close with the enemy and wipe them...
...story was written in New York by Timothy James, with contributions on the U.S. scene from Ed Magnuson, and edited by Ronald Kriss. The accompanying box on Carlos Marighella's guerrilla manual was written by Katie Kelly. Sara Medina, Marion Knox and Genevieve Wilson provided research...
...will an avowed Marxist as its President. How this came about, and its likely effect on the rest of Latin America, was reported by David Lee, with the assistance of Kay Huff and Jerry Hannifin. The article itself was written by William Smith, researched by Genevieve Wilson and Sara Medina and edited by Ronald Kriss...