American Experience, My Lai
PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):
Tuesday, Aug. 19, at 9 PM
Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 2 AM
Fusion (WNEO 45.2 / WEAO 49.2):
Monday, Aug. 25, at 8 PM
What drove a company of American soldiers — ordinary young men from around the country — to commit the worst atrocity in American military history? Were they “just following orders” as some later declared? Or, did they break under the pressure of a vicious war in which the line between enemy soldier and civilian had been intentionally blurred? AMERICAN EXPERIENCE focuses on the 1968 My Lai massacre, its subsequent cover-up, and the heroic efforts of the soldiers who broke ranks to try to halt the atrocities and then bring them to light.
