One of Haeberle's My Lai photos: "Most were women and babies. It looked as if they tried to get away"

Ronald L. Haeberle was a U.S. Army photographer who released pictures of the My Lai massacre to a horrified American and foreign public when it was published by LIFE magazine in late 1969. Image File history File links My_Lai_massacre. ... Image File history File links My_Lai_massacre. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... Photographs of the My Lai massacre provoked world outrage and made it an international scandal. ... For other uses, see Life (disambiguation). ...

As the Charlie Company's 3rd platoon moved into the hamlet of My Lai, it was followed by Ronald Haeberle, there to document what was supposed to be a significant encounter with a crack Viet Cong battalion. Sơn Tịnh is a district of Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam, situated to the north-east of the town of Quảng Ngãi. ... A Viet Cong soldier, heavily guarded, awaits interrogation following capture in the attacks on Saigon during the festive Tet holiday period of 1968. ...

According to Camilla Griggers, professor of Visual Communication and Linguistics at California State University: The California State University (CSU) is one of three public higher education systems in the state of California, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College System. ...

The Army photographer, Ronald Haeberle, assigned to Charlie Company on March 16th, 1968 had two cameras. One was an Army standard; one was his personal camera. The film on the Army owned camera, i.e., the official camera of the State, showed standard operations ­ that is “authorized” and “official” operations including interrogating villagers and burning “insurgent” huts. What the film on the personal camera showed, however, was different. When turned over to the press and Government by the photographer, those “unofficial” photographs provided the grounds for a court martial. Haeberle's personal images (owned by himself and not the US Government) showed hundreds of villagers who had been killed by U.S. troops. More significantly, they showed that the dead were primarily women and children, including infants.
Camilla Benolirao Griggers, "War and the Politics of Perception," chapter 1 from the essay Visualizing War.) March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ... A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a military court that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military law. ...

Haeberle later testified he personally saw about 30 different American soldiers kill about 100 civilians.

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External links

• War photos that changed history
• Testimony of Ronald Haeberle, Witness for the Prosecution