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...bourbon. Really. Seymour Hersh was a freelancer working for a no-name syndication agency when he heard a tip, blagged his way into a military attorney’s office (a tactic he has since called “smarmy”), and hunted down Lieutenant William J. Calley. He broke the story on the My Lai Massacre after he bought Calley steak and bourbon...
...courts-martial every year for offenses ranging from conduct unbecoming an officer to rape and homicide. Penalties range from a dishonorable discharge and demotion in rank to decades in prison or the death penalty. The most famous court-martial in recent memory was the 1971 trial of Lieut. William Calley, who was charged with murder for his involvement in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Although a jury convicted Calley and sentenced him to life in prison, President Nixon reduced his sentence, and he served just 3 1/2 years under house arrest at Fort Benning...
...worst encounter with a Mr. Hyde side abroad came in 1969, when a young journalist named Seymour Hersh first broke a story about the massacre of scores of Vietnamese civilians at the village of My Lai. The remedy at the time was to blame it all on Lt. William Calley, an officer in charge on the day. My Lai may simply have been a symptom, however, of a war in which American forces were ranged not only against communist insurgents, but against a substantial proportion of the civilian population who supported them. My Lai was hardly the only instance...
...every major U.S. conflict, from Korea to Afghanistan, most notably for Esquire magazine. His 33,000-word piece "Oh My God! We Hit a Little Girl," an unflinching account of an infantry company in Vietnam, is the longest article ever to appear in Esquire. After he interviewed Lieut. William Calley, who was convicted of killing civilians at My Lai, Sack was indicted on federal felony charges, later dropped, for refusing to hand over his notes...
...Francisco. Sack reported from the battlefields of every major U.S. conflict from Korea to Afghanistan. His 33,000-word piece "Oh My God?We Hit a Little Girl," which followed an infantry company in Vietnam, is the longest article ever to appear in Esquire. After interviewing Lieut. William Calley, an officer convicted for the massacre of civilians at My Lai, Sack was indicted on federal felony charges, later dropped, for refusing to surrender his notes to prosecutors...