CBS Evening News - 1970-03-17
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[0:01] thank you
[0:02] so right from our Newsroom in New York
[0:04] in color this is the CBS Evening News
[0:07] with Walter Cronkite and Eric Severide
[0:11] in Washington Raja Mudd in Washington
[0:13] Robert pierpoint at the White House
[0:15] Nelson Benton at the Pentagon and Gary
[0:18] Shepard near Chow duk on the Cambodian
[0:21] border
[0:22] good evening 14 officers including the
[0:25] superintendent of West Point Stand
[0:27] Accused by the Army a failure to
[0:29] investigate and Report what the Army now
[0:32] calls a tragedy of major proportions in
[0:35] the mili Massacre that charge came from
[0:37] a special Pentagon panel it spent three
[0:40] months trying to determine if there had
[0:41] been a cover-up of the 1968 mass slains
[0:44] of South Vietnamese civilians senior on
[0:47] the list of those facing possible courts
[0:49] Marshall is Major General Samuel Coster
[0:52] shown here in Vietnam in 1967. the U.S
[0:55] military academy Chief had commanded the
[0:58] American Division whose units had swept
[1:00] through me live He's accused of
[1:02] dereliction of Duty and failure to obey
[1:05] regulations the same charges have been
[1:07] brought against Brigadier General George
[1:09] H young Jr the Americas former assistant
[1:11] Commander Colonel Oren K Henderson who
[1:14] commanded the division's 11th infantry
[1:16] Brigade faces the same two counts
[1:18] similar or lesser charges were brought
[1:21] against 11 other officers
[1:23] two more kernels two Lieutenant Colonels
[1:25] three majors and four captains among the
[1:28] latter are Ernest Medina and Thomas
[1:30] Willingham who earlier were charged with
[1:32] murder either at mili or near the
[1:34] village we have a report on today's
[1:36] announcement in Washington