Existing comment:
1971
* More than a hundred U.S. military veterans and civilian contractors testify to war crimes committed in Vietnam during the Winter Soldier Investigation in Detroit
* Lt. William Calley is convicted for murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians at Mỹ Lai
* Vietnam Veterans Against the War organizes a national protest in Washington, D.C.[fig.]
* A Harris public opinion poll shows that 58 percent of Americans believe the war in Vietnam is not only a mistake, but "morally wrong"
* The publication of the Pentagon Papers, first by the New York Times, results in a landmark Supreme Court decision upholding freedom of the press[fig.]
* U.S. troop levels in Vietnam at the end of 1971: 156,800 |