William Calley, who was the platoon leader for Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment on March 16, 1968, when he and his men massacred at least 347 civilians in the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, has died at the age of 80.
He was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes, but his sentence was commuted to 3 years under house arrest by Richard Nixon.
He was the only person prosecuted, and then only after Seymour Hersch dug up the story and made it public.
Given what happened that day, and what higher ups knew before and after the massacre, the Pentagon's coverup largely worked.
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