Vietnam War
This section focuses on the MyLai Incident, including the Peers Inquiry (later known as the MyLai Massacre) with all four volumes and several hearings and committee reports.
My Lai Incident
Peers Inquiry: Report of the Department of the Army Review of the Preliminary Investigations into the My Lai Incident
In November 1969, Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army, and General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, directed Lieutenant General William R. Peers, U.S. Army, to “explore the nature and scope of the original Army investigations of what occurred on 16 March 1968 in Son My Village, Quang Ngai Province, Republic of Vietnam.” This collection of materials, commonly known as the “Peers Inquiry,” which provides the results of General Peers’ investigation of the “My Lai incident”— later also known as the “My Lai massacre”— is divided into four volumes: the report, witness testimonies, exhibit materials, and CID [U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command] statements.
includes:
- Volume I
- Volume II: Books 1-35
- Volume III: Books 1-7
- Volume IV
Investigation of the My Lai Incident
- Background of the My Lai Hearings and Report
- Hearings of the Armed Services Investigating Subcommittee... (April, May, June 1970)
- House of Representatives Armed Services Committee Report (July 15, 1970)
American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1970
Hearings before the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives 91st Congress 2nd Session, April 29, May 1, and May 6, 1970