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...opinion of many behavioral scientists, historians and philosophers, the Viet Nam War, more than any previous conflict, has helped to foster violence at home. One evidence of the war's impact is indicated by a recent national survey of attitudes toward the Calley case. According to Harvard Psychologist Herbert Kelman, many Americans regard Lieut. Calley's behavior at My Lai as normal. That suggests, Kelman concludes, that an alarmingly large segment of the population might be willing to employ extreme violence if ordered...
Herbet Kelman and Lee Lawrence will discuss the public reaction to the trial of Lt. Calley and the allocation of responsibility. Quincy House...
...place left to go in America. "Watts, Harlem, Newark, Washington, D.C.-they are all Atti-cas," he says, shrugging his shoulders, "except it's minimum security there." He has little faith in American justice. "Justice?" he protests. "Look at it. Look at Hoffa. Look at Lieutenant Calley. And look at the Harlem Four -eight years without bail...
...inhabitants of a Vietnamese village suspected of aiding the enemy, including old men, women and children." Such was the finding of a poll commissioned by two Harvard scholars. Unsurprisingly, then, by a ratio of better than 5 to 3, the 989 Americans interviewed thought that Lieut. William Calley Jr. should not have been brought to trial for his part in the massacre...
That is dismaying enough in the face of the evidence presented at Galley's court-martial. What is still more worrisome, though, is a conclusion drawn by researchers that indicates a national social malaise. Americans toward the lower end of the economic scale felt most strongly that Calley was only rightfully following orders. Their judgment, says Professor Herbert Kelman, one of the scholars who prepared the study, "reflects their whole relationship to society, the feeling that they are pawns, not independent agents." Kelman thinks that this self-assessment by poorer Americans is accurate: "In reality they are not their...