My Lai Massacre

• In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

  Robert S. McNamara, 1995. Reflections and regrets from an architect of the war. Kennedy and Johnson's Secretary of Defense.

• Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Thuy Tram

  Dang Thuy Tram, 2007. Tram was a volunteer doctor with the Viet Cong.

• A Vietcong Memoir

  Nhu Than Truong, 1985.

• In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1966-1975

  Katheryn Marshall, 1987.

• Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War

  Wallace Terry, 1984. Interviews with Black Veterans.

• The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

  Frederick Downs, 1978.

• Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story

  Leroy TeCube, 1999.

• Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War

  Al Santoli, 1982.

• Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1979

  Library of America, 1998, 2000.

• Felon for Peace: The Memoir of a Vietnam-Era Draft Resister

  Jerry Elmer, 2005.

• Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War

  Bruce Dancis, 2014.

• Out Now! A Participant's Account of the American Movement Against the Vietnam War

  Fred Halstead, 1978.

Videos

• American experience: My Lai

The words 'My Lai' are seared into our memories of the Vietnam War, but few know what really happened in the small Vietnamese village on March 16, 1968. Now, drawing on 400 hours of recently discovered audio recordings and new interviews with participants, eye witnesses, and investigators, the complete story can finally be told about one of the most shocking atrocities in modern times, and about lesser-known acts of remarkable courage.

• Back to My Lai - 60 Minutes

The story of My Lai is well known: On the morning of March 16, 1968, a company of U.S. soldiers killed as many as 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, a village in South Vietnam.

The military tried to cover up the massacre but the story eventually came out. One of those in charge, Lt. William Calley, was convicted of premeditated murder and served six years in prison.

One facet of this story is not so well known: the massacre was halted by three brave Americans soldiers. Correspondent Mike Wallace revisits a story he first reported in 1969.

• Four Hours in My Lai: BBC Documentary

Features interviews with American soldiers who were there.

• Heart of Darkness

Al-Jazeera documentary online, 2008.

Internet Sources

• Digital History: My Lai Massacre

• My Lai Courts Martial

• The Peers Inquiry of the massacre at My Lai