March 16, 1968: Charlie Company of the U.S. Army's 11th Brigade, under the command of Lt. William Calley, enters the South Vietnamese village of My Lai, searching for Vietcong. Over 300 apparently unarmed civilians, including women and children, are killed. Nearly two years later, on November 13, 1969, Word of the My Lai massacre reaches the American public as Seymour Hersh's freelance story is published in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and the London Times. Lt. William Calley had been charged with murder in a military court two months earlier. In 1971 he is convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but is released in 1975 following appeal.