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Indeed, the newspaper report shown in Turning Point alleging the use of “baby killers” and “murderers” was published years after the war, and the poster can only qualify as evidence of the charge if one assumes that denouncing the massacre at My Lai is the same thing as calling a returning veteran a “baby killer.”

Unlike the Americans at My Lai, the revolutionaries did not typically engage in indiscriminate slaughter.

We also walk alongside the survivors of the My Lai massacre, whose wrenching accounts bring new layers of humanity and sorrow to Ronald L. Haeberle’s photographs—images he captured that day with his personal camera, he explains in the series, because he knew the military would sanitize any visual evidence shared with the public.

“If Nixon’s reality — wearing a new Ford face — continues to run the country against the law, our homes will be bloodier than the Tate-LaBianca houses and My Lai put together,” she said.

Three-and-a-half months later, 24-year-old “Rusty” Calley was at the center of the My Lai massacre, one of the darkest chapters in U.S. military history.