Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ronald L. Haeberle" in English language version.
Up to this point Mr Haeberle's year [sic] in Vietnam with the Public Information Office had mainly consisted of recording official events.
Ronald Haeberle had no idea that anything out of the ordinary would happen on this assignment.
The result was industrial-scale slaughter, the equivalent, he said, to a 'My Lai each month'.
Mr. Stratton: You said that you had two black and white cameras and one color camera. Mr. Haeberle: That is right.
The Vietnam War produced thousands of shocking photographs of death and destruction, but few scenes were more disturbing than the horrific color picture of dozens of dead South Vietnamese women and children taken by combat photographer Ronald Haeberle
The name is said to have first been used by South Vietnamese Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem to belittle the rebels.
We met no resistance and I only saw three captured weapons. We had no casualties. It was just like any other Vietnamese village-old Papa-Sans, women and kids. As a matter of fact, I don't remember seeing one military-age male in the entire place, dead or alive.
Fifty years ago today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer...published shocking photos of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
The pictures, taken by a US Army combat photographer, were horrifying. Piles of bodies, looks of terror on Vietnamese faces as they stared at certain death, a man shoved down a well, homes set ablaze.
Incredibly, the world at large might have never learned about the death and torture visited by American troops upon the villagers at My Lai had it not been for an Army photographer named Ron Haeberle.
...all these factors combined to enable a group of normally ambitious men to mount an unnecessary mission against a nonexistent enemy force and somehow find evidence to justify it.
In their conversation on Nov. 21, 1969, about the My Lai massacre, Mr. Laird told Mr. Kissinger that while he would like to sweep it under the rug, the photographs prevented it.There are so many kids just laying there; these pictures are authentic, Mr. Laird said.
The Viet Cong body count was listed as 128 and there was no mention of civilian casualties.
In their historical overview of the massacre, James Olson and Randy Roberts compile information about sexual violence from the Peers Inquiry to produce a list of 20 acts of rape based on eyewitness testimony. The victims documented on this list ranged from age 10-45. Of these women and girls, nine were under the age of eighteen. Many of these assaults were gang rapes and many involved sexual torture.
This museum is the city's most popular attraction but not for the faint-hearted.
In a hotel room in Ohio, before a stunned investigator, Haeberle projected on a hung-up bedsheet horrifying images of piled dead bodies and frightened Vietnamese villagers.
Ridenhour's letter spurred the inspector general of the Army, Gen. William Enemark, to launch a fact-finding mission
Medina briefed his men that they were to kill all guerrilla and North Vietnamese combatants, including "suspects" (including women and children, as well as all animals), to burn the village, and pollute the wells.
When Haeberle's shocking photographs of their atrocities were published — more than a year later — the pictures laid bare an appalling truth: American "boys" were as capable of unbridled savagery as any soldiers, anywhere.
During or subsequent to the briefing, LTC Barker ordered the commanders of C/1-20 Inf, and possibly B/4-3 Inf, to burn the houses, kill the livestock, destroy foodstuffs and perhaps to close the wells. No instructions were issued as to the safeguarding of noncombatants found there.
The campaign was organized by Ron Haeberle, the American photographer best known for capturing the My Lai Massacre in 1968
As Tran Van Duc and his sister Tran Thi Ha escaped from the armed men carrying out a grisly massacre, a helicopter flew low over them. Duc threw himself on his sister to protect her. Ronald L. Haeberle, a combat photographer on duty Vietnam, captured that moment.
In their conversation on Nov. 21, 1969, about the My Lai massacre, Mr. Laird told Mr. Kissinger that while he would like to sweep it under the rug, the photographs prevented it.There are so many kids just laying there; these pictures are authentic, Mr. Laird said.
