My Lai Revisited: Journalist Seymour Hersh Travels to Vietnam Site of U.S. Massacre He Exposed

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"Democracy Now!" looks back at the 1968 My Lai massacre -- when American troops killed hundreds of civilians -- 50 years after the U.S. ground invasion of Vietnam began.

Journalist Seymour Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story of the massacre and subsequent cover-up. But Hersh never actually went there; he interviewed soldiers stateside. Forty-seven years later, he recently traveled to My Lai for the first time, which he documents in a new article for The New Yorker, "The Scene of the Crime: A Reporter's Journey to My Lai and the Secrets of the Past."

Hersh joins the show to discuss how he exposed the massacre nearly five decades ago and what it was like to visit My Lai for the very first time.