GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in ...

They started calling it the “Nuremberg defense” when lawyers for Lt. William Calley at his court martial argued that he was only following orders in the March 1968 slaughter of hundreds of Vietnamese ...

I am old enough to remember the Vietnam War. And I remember vividly what became known as the My Lai Massacre, when, in a single morning in 1968, Lt. William Calley of the U.S. Army led about 100 ...