Questioning Calley case and wartime command guilt
A nationwide UP reporters poll asked 586 adults in 48 cities whether war crimes trials of German and Japanese leaders after World War II were right and whether U.S. leaders including General Westmoreland or President Johnson should bear final responsibility for the My Lai killings. Responses favored the WWII trials but were split on high-level accountability.
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Calley
United States
General Westmoreland
Johnson
My Lai
Lt. Calley
U.S
Westmoreland
James M. Kefauver
Washington, D.C
John S. Whiteneck Jr
Bethel Congregational Church
Beaverton, Ore
Westmoreland and
Germany
Fulbright links atrocity responsibility to White House policy
Sen. J William Fulbright argues that if Vietnam atrocity blame is pursued, major leaders must be implicated, comparing to Nazi and Japanese war crime trials. He suggests Calley was shaped by policy from the White House and that higher authorities may bear accountability for My Lai.
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Washington
UPT
J. William Fulbright
White House
Palbright
Theft of fonts leads to arrests in Rivera City
Police report the arrest and conviction of suspects connected to the March 29 Font theft at 718 Lowell. Contact George Barres at 4147 for details as Rivera City Police Dept confirms charges and case status.
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Marres Parare
Lawell
George Barres
Daz
Rivera City
LCCC gains accreditation from North Central Assoc
Lorain County Community College has been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and joins the region's largest accrediting body after a vote by the association's institutions. Acting President Thomas D. Bowen and Dr. Henry M. Milander led the college's presentation, praising faculty, staff, trustees and students for the achievement amid past accreditation challenges dating to 1966.
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Lorain County Community College
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Thomas D. Bowen
LCCC
Henry M. Milander
North Central
Committee On Institutions of Higher Education
Association
LeCo
Quiet reunion over beer as father visits son in Dong Ha
A South Vietnamese airborne soldier and his father share a quiet reunion over a beer in Dong Ha, one mile south of the DMZ. The father traveled to see his son whose unit has been standing down after bearing the brunt of heavy fighting in Laos.
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Dong Ha
Demilitarized Zone
Laos
Impossible dream police nightmare
LAFAYETTE Indiana. When a state trooper pulled Charles Castle of Cincinnati over for speeding on I 65 he told the officer one of us has to be wrong The trooper was wrong Castle checked his speedometer after returning home and finding it accurate He later received a letter from the Indiana state police asking him to disregard the speeding citation issued by Trooper Kesterson It appears another trooper using Vascar radar clocked him and found the speedometer was off
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Lafayette
Ind
UPI
Charles Castle
Cincinnati
Castle
Indiana State Police
Kesterson
Interstate 65
Vascar
Nations react as Calley is convicted and boards resign
UPI reports three local draft boards quit and nationwide mass marches are planned amid widespread calls for clemency for Lt. William L. Calley Jr. The White House reports thousands of wires and calls, with a strong bias for clemency. Local boards in Elizabethton Tennessee Athens Georgia and Blairsville Georgia resign.
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Washington
White House
William L. Calley Jr
Calley
My Lai
Ft. Benning Stockade
Ronald L. Ziegler
Elizabethton
Tenn
Athens
Blairsville
Quitman, Ga
Nixon
Court martial to begin tomorrow for Calley's colonel at My Lai
Col Oran K. Henderson, highest ranked officer still charged in My Lai crimes, faces a court martial tomorrow two days after Lt William L Calley was given life imprisonment. Henderson, commander of Americal Division's 11th Brigade, stands on three charges of attempting to cover up and deceit. If he pleads not guilty, trial could start by late April in a small base courtroom between Baltimore and Washington. Henderson says he saw no killings and only learned of the massacre 22 years later.
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FT. Meade, Md
UPR
Oran K. Henderson
My Lai
William L. Calleyer
Henderson
Americal
Vth
Baltimore
Washington, D.C
Quang Ngai
South Vietnam
Calley
Hugh C. Thompson
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B.F. Middlebrooks
United Press International
William L. Calley
Colley
Vietnam
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
R.B. Addkison
Houston
Leonard Vainio
Butte
Mont
Johnson and Westmoreland
Nuernberg
Harret Kane
New Orleans
University of Kansas
Daniel F. Evans
Pentagon
Mary Sonis
Charleston
W. Va
William Ungemach
Pittsburgh
Diane Petryk
Michigan State University
Fulbright
Fairbright
Vanes
Wellington
Burns
Federal Reserve
Arthur Burns
County College Is Accredited By
Bowen
Milander
Max .J. Lerner
Arthur F. Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Senate Banking Committee
Fed
Treasury Department
Charles E Walker
Congress
Impossible Dream Police Nightmare
Dilbeck
Cammarata
Robert Cadle
E. Thomas Cammarata
Pennsylvania American Legion
Free Valley Committee
Hawaii
Ander
Col
Oran Henderson
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