How did a US Army mission in Vietnam end with the massacre of up to 500 people?In this episode, Don is joined by Christopher Levesque to examine one of the most harrowing chapters of the war in Vietnam. They return to March 1968, when the men of Charlie Company undertook a 'search and destroy' mission in the Quang Ngai province village of Son My.Chris holds a joint appointment at the University of West Florida Libraries and the UWF Historic Trust. He is an archivist and teaches at the University of Western Florida, Pensacola, and the University of Charleston.Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sounds.American History Hit is a History Hit podcast.
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Hi everyone, it's Don. Just jumping in with a gentle warning, the episode which follows contains some very distressing content. November 1970, Fort Benning, Georgia. A convoy of military trucks moves by on the wet pavement. MPs patrol the curb. In the distance, the cadence of marching boots echoes through the air.
All of this is a reminder that we are standing on an army base, a place built for war. But here, as we face the stark and simple building ahead of us, war is not being waged, but it is being judged. Today marks the beginning of the trial of Lieutenant William Calley Jr., accused of the premeditated murder of unarmed civilians at a small village called My Lai in South Vietnam.
Today, there will be an American soldier, not an enemy, standing in the dock. It will be the United States Army which will decide whether one of its own committed an unspeakable crime. Within the building, inside the courtroom, the wooden witness stand is, for the moment, empty, and the courtroom still.
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This is American History It, and I'm Don Wildman. Today, we'll discuss the not-so-distant past, at least for some of us. Though I was but a youngster at the time, I can vividly recall the images of horrific fighting in a faraway land called Vietnam.
While my sisters and I lived our normal childhood lives, going to school and playing sports and having family dinners at night, that war overseas was escalating, as was reported nightly on the news with body counts and footage of firefights in the jungle.
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