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They said that, well, we just felt like we were killing vermin. they'd pull the trigger by somehow tricking themselves to think that they're not killing a human, they're killing an animal. the captain and lieutenant callie did not do anything to stop them. they had lost it themselves. it was a complete failure. >> the white house is acutely aware that the my lai scandal could bring about a disastrous withering away of public support for the vietnam war and for mr. nixon's plans for a staged withdrawal of american forces. >> what happened in the my lai case was not a combat situation. he shot i...

Premeditated murder in the death of 22 south vietnamese. >> william callie commanded the unit that went into my lai, a village that was supposedly harboring viet cong troops. >> we were ferried in by helicopters. we led on the outskirts of the village. we came across some people in the village as i have in one photograph. you can see in the expressions of their faces before they're about to be shot, especially the small child on the left and the one small boy not realizing what is about to happen. >> in the spasm of violence, hundreds of people are killed, all of them civilians. this unit from...

One of the. >> it was a village supposed to be harboring the enemy. >> we came across some people. i have this one photograph. you can see the expression in their faces just before they were b about to be shot. especially the small child on the left and the one small boy not realizing what is about to happen. >> hundreds of people are killed, all of them civilians. >> this unit lost it. they said that we just felt like we were killing vermin. they pulled 2 trigger by tricking themselves into thinking they're not killing a human, they're killing an

Unit that went into my lai, a village that was supposedly harboring viet cong troops. >> we were ferried in by helicopters. we led on the outskirts of the village. we came across some people in the village as i have in one photograph. you can see in the expressions of their faces before they're about to be shot, especially the small child on the left and the one small boy not realizing what is about to happen. >> in the spasm of violence, hundreds of people are killed, all of them civilians. this unit from the americal division lost it. they said, we just felt like we were killing vermin. they...

Of 22 south vietnamese. >> william callie commanded the unit that went into my lai, a village that was supposedly harboring vietcong troops. >> we were ferried in by helicopters. we led on the outskirts of the village. we came across some people in the village as i have in one photograph. you can see in the expressions of their faces before they're about to be shot, especially the small child on the left and the one small boy not realizing what is about to happen. >> in the spasm of violence, hundreds of people are killed, all of them civilians. this unit from the americal division lost it. th...