Key Information
Reference code
MY LAI 8/45
Title
Copy extracts from letters and diaries, 1968-1970, by US Army personnel
Date(s)
- 1968 - 1970 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Letters and contemporary accounts of massacre'. Photocopies of extracts of letters and diaries of US servicemen relating to events at My Lai, Vietnam, on 16 Mar 1968, including copies of letters to Hugh Thompson in regarding reports of his rescue of Vietnamese civilians from My Lai, 1969-1970; extract of letter from Capt Brian Livingston to his wife, 16 Mar 1968, and Livingston's sworn statement to the Peers Inquiry, 26 Feb 1970; extract from Maj Fred Watke's letter to Mrs Watke, 16-18 Mar 1968; and extracts from diary of Thomas A Partsch, 15-18 Mar 1968, 29 Feb and 3 Mar 1968.