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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...One daily, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, got lucky. A returned G.I., Ronald L. Haeberle, had been attached to C Company as a combat photographer when it moved into My Lai. When the assignment was over, he turned in the black-and-white film supplied him by the Army but kept some color film he had bought himself. Back in Cleveland after discharge, Haeberle resisted showing them to newspapers until last month. Then he called an old school friend, who was a Plain Dealer reporter. The paper snapped up the photographs, ran them in black and white, and then helped Haeberle...
...British press showed more initial interest in the massacre story than the U.S. press. So did British politicians. But while some of them used it to attack the U.S. and its involvement in Viet Nam, one left-wing Labor member allowed that it was "to its great credit" that the story was revealed "in the American press in the first place." He was perhaps too kind...
That is quite an overwhelming reader response to a publication only two issues old-and one which reads as though it were put out by a bunch of truck drivers. Teammate, as it happens, is the monthly magazine of a bunch of truck drivers. In bareknuckle prose, it has been throwing straight jabs at the Teamsters Union hierarchy. The union officials, who are just filling in while Jimmy Hoffa finishes his jail sentence, are described as corrupt bosses and the "enemy within." The magazine has publicized alleged Mafia involvement in the misuse of pension funds and attacked dynastic policies...
Teammate Editor Hills, who learned investigative reporting on Detroit's now defunct Scope magazine, does not hesitate to charge the union with the bombing. Patent nonsense, reply union leaders. "If we were in the business of blowing up places, and we aren't any more," says one official, "we'd have gone for the valuable equipment...
Television newsmen last week were still viewing Vice President Agnew's attacks on the press with alarm, but one unelected elite-the humor columnists -was beginning to relax and enjoy it. "Boy, you guys have put me back in business," Art Buchwald told Administration Communications Director Herb Klein shortly after Agnew's Des Moines speech. "Where do I send the wine...