“Lieutenant Accused of Murdering 109 Civilians”

After the brief article “Army Accuses Lieutenant in Vietnam Deaths in 1968”, which appeared on page 14 of The New York Times on September 7, 1969, Seymour Hersh’s first detailed report on the My Lai Massacre and its perpetrators appeared on the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On November 20 of the same year, US Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle’s shocking photographs of the massacre were published in The Plain Dealer, accompanied by Hersh’s more extensive report.