On March 16, 1968, members of the United States Army carried out a mass murder against unarmed Vietnamese civilians. They killed 504 people. Two hundred and ten of the murder victims were under the age of 13. Afterward, military leadership did their best to cover up the massacre. They didn\u2019t anticipate that a few brave people would tell the truth.
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\nAnd now for a note about our process. For this episode, Kristin read a bunch of articles, then spat them back out in her very limited vocabulary. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cMy Lai\u201d episode of American Experience
\n\u201cMy Lai Massacre\u201d by Douglas O. Linder for famous trials.com
\n\u201cMy Lai Massacre,\u201d entry on Britannica.com
\n\u201cThe truth behind My Lai,\u201d by Christopher J. Levesque for The New York Times
\n\u201cThe Ghosts of My Lai,\u201d by Shaun Raviv for Smithsonian Magazine
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