... air missile division, led by Lt. William L. Calley, invaded the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong stronghold. In the course of combat operations, unarmed civilians, including women and children, were shot to death. The death toll totaling 347 people. The incident remained unknown to the American public until the Autumn of 1969, when a series of letters by a former ... (President Kennedy's brother, who was running for President but was killed by Sirhan Sirhan) Jacqueline Kennedy (President Kennedy's widow, married Greek shipping businessman, Aristotle Onassis), and ...

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