Ronald L. Haeberle is a former United States Army combat photographer best known for the photographs he took of the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968. The photographs were definitive evidence of a mas
The Art Workers Coalition printed 50,000 And babies posters using Haeberle's photo
The Cleveland Plain Dealer Front Page on November 20, 1969 exposing the My Lai massacre to the world for the first time.
Women and children before being killed by American GIs. Photo by Ronald L. Haeberle.
My Lai massacre survivors - two children on a trail. Photo by Ronald L. Haeberle
Melvin Robert Laird Jr. was an American politician, writer and statesman. A member of the Republican Party, he served a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin from 1953 to
Ronald L. Haeberle
…or cover up. On November 21, 1969, the day after the photographs were first published in Haeberle's hometown newspaper, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Melvin Laird, the Secretary of Defense, discussed them with Henry Kissinger who was at the time National Security Advisor to President Richard Nixon. Laird was…
Official portrait, c. 1969
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird with President Richard Nixon and General Alexander Haig and Secretary of State William P. Rogers and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger at The Oval Office in The White House, Washington, D.C. January 4, 1973.
Secretary Laird (center) before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1970
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird with Air Force Chief of Staff General John D. Ryan and Secretary of The Air Force Robert C. Seamans at a ceremony in The Pentagon.