 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
||
| Home | About Us | Archives | Stations | |||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
 |
the my lai tapes | |
||||||
|
 |
On March 16, 1968, a group of U.S. soldiers killed 504 Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in Vietnam. The episode became known as the “My Lai massacre”, and proved to be a turning point for public opinion in the United States about the Vietnam War. “The My Lai Tapes,” produced for the BBC World Service, includes recently declassified archive recordings from the U.S. Army’s private investigation into the massacre. | |
|||||
 |
First Half  |
American military journalist, Robert Hodierne, worked as a freelance photographer in Vietnam during the war. He reconstructs the events that led up to the My Lai massacre 40 years ago, from interviews with some of the surviving victims and perpetrators of the attack. |
||||||
|
||||||||
|
Second Half |
From December 1969 until March 1970, the U.S. Army conducted an internal investigation into the My Lai massacre and its subsequent cover-up, in the basement of the Pentagon. “The Peers Inquiry” was held behind closed doors, and heard evidence from more than 400 witnesses. Hundreds of hours of testimony were tape-recorded, but after the inquiry the tapes were boxed-up and largely forgotten about. In this documentary, Robert Hodierne shares recently declassified recordings of testimony from key witnesses at the Peers Inquiry, exclusive to the BBC. |
||||||
|
||||||||
|
| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
|
UPCOMING PROGRAMS |
|
RECENT PROGRAMS
more from the archives » Listen to
|
