American Decades
Codes of Conduct and the My Lai Massacre
"Nine Rules"; "The Enemy in Your Hands"; "Guidance for Commanders in Vietnam"
Codes of conduct
By: Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
Date: September 1967
Source: Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. "Nine Rules," "The Enemy in Your Hands," and "Guidance for Commanders in Vietnam." September 1967. Available online at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/myl_... ; website home page: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm (accessed April 2, 2003).
About the Organization: The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) was established in February 1962. Originally, its presence in Vietnam was to be short-lived, departing once the Vietcong (VC) rebellion was defeated. As the...
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1960's Government and Politics Primary Sources
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- The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society
- "U-2 Photography of Soviet MRBM Site in Cuba, October 1962"
- "The Desolate Year"
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- "The Great Society"
- "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy"
- "Aggression from the North"
- Martin Luther King, Jr
- Federal Role in Traffic Safety: Hearings Before the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations
- Three Years in Mississippi
- "Mutual Deterrence"
- Codes of Conduct and the My Lai Massacre
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- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1960's: Primary Sources
