My Lai massacre
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The My Lai Massacre was a U.S. Army war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of between 347 and 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, in Sơn Mỹ village, Quả
Photo taken by U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle in the aftermath of the massacre, showing mostly women and children dead on a road— famously used in the "And babies" poster
Sơn Mỹ operations, 16 March 1968
American soldiers from Company C disembark helicopters outside the hamlets.
American soldiers interrogate an old man and two children, one an infant. Photographer Ronald L. Haeberle did not see what ultimately happened to them.
And babies
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And babies is an iconic anti-Vietnam War poster. It is a famous example of "propaganda art" from the Vietnam War, that uses a color photograph of the My Lai massacre taken by U.S. combat photographer
My Lai massacre
…dead bodies, the destroyed photographs depicted Americans in the actual process of murdering Vietnamese civilians. According to M. Paul Holsinger, the And babies poster, which used a Haeberle photo, was "easily the most successful poster to vent the outrage that so many felt about the human cost of the conflict…
The Art Workers Coalition poster And Babies connected the My Lai massacre with anti-war sentiment