Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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A second and much larger group of Vietnamese died in an irrigation ditch on the east side of My Lai. Conti approached, he said, and saw "Lieut. Calley and Sergeant [David] Mitchell standing on a dike, firing . . . There were people in [the ditch] and Calley and Mitchell were firing into...
Well spoken, unemotional, direct in manner. Conti seemed to be an effective witness for the prosecution. When Calley stared at him, he stared back steadily. When one of the defense attorneys, Richard Kay, shouted at him, trying to establish that Conti had been a heavy user of marijuana while in...
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From there Kay attempted to establish that Conti had bragged to his buddies about raping women in Viet Nam; that on two occasions Calley had stopped Conti from attacking women; that, in My Lai, Conti had threatened to shoot a woman's baby if she refused to submit; that...
Interrogation by George Latimer, Calley's senior counsel, brought out two weaknesses in Maples' testimony. The witness conceded that Calley had not actually ordered him to fire on the civilians. He also acknowledged that he had not seen victims being struck by bullets. However, Maples observed, "the people...