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...either sharing in the killings or covering them up, only six have come to trial, and four have been acquitted-though the division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, was demoted one star, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young, was reprimanded. The only man still on trial is Colonel Oran Henderson, who is charged with suppressing the affair instead of informing his superiors-a charge that might have been brought against Medina with better results...
...Resor, who handed down the punishment just before he resigned last week, maintained that Koster had evidence that possible war crimes had been committed at My Lai, and it was his professional duty to make a report. Koster did in fact inquire into the incident. He asked Colonel Oran Henderson, commander of the brigade that included Lieut. William Galley's Charlie Company, to fill him in. Henderson is being tried by court-martial for failing to make a proper report...
Only three men, all officers, still have charges pending against them. Colonel Oran Henderson, Calley's brigade commander, is accused of helping to cover up the massacre; pretrial hearings in the Henderson case began last week. Captain Eugene Kotouc, a member of Calley's task force, is charged with assault and maiming. Calley's immediate superior, Captain Ernest Medina, still faces charges of murder and assault...
...Oran K. Henderson
...total of 25 officers and enlisted men were charged in connection with My Lai. Last week it was announced that for failing, among other things, "to conduct a proper and thorough investigation" of the incident, Colonel Oran K. Henderson, former commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, will be tried by a general court-martial. Of those charged, all have been freed except Henderson, Calley, Medina and Captain Eugene M. Kotouc, who did not participate in the raid but is accused of having assaulted a Vietnamese during interrogation just after...