Posted on Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:50 pm
Fifty years ago today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer — what was, at the time, a daily newspaper — published shocking photos of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. It was the first outlet in the United States to do so.
Snapped by Ron Haeberle, a U.S. army staff photographer from Cleveland who’d been honorably discharged shortly after the massacre, the photos landed in the lap of PD ace reporter Joe Ezterhaus.