For ten points, what was this 1968 atrocity in which over 300 Vietnamese civilians were killed by the U. S. Army?
William Peers wrote the final report on this event, while the story was broken by reporter Seymour Hersh over a year after the fact. Captain Ernest Medina escaped punishment for ordering the raid against NLF guerillas believed to live in the hamlet codenamed "Pinkville", but a sentence was imposed on Lieutenant William Calley, leader of the 1st Platoon of Charlie Company. For ten points, what was this 1968 atrocity in which over 300 Vietnamese civilians were killed by the U. S. Army?
William Peers wrote the final report on this event, while the story was broken by reporter Seymour Hersh over a year after the fact.
{My Lai} Massacre