Video Review: My Lai and Why It Matters

Video Review:

My Lai and Why It Matters

Ron Ridenhour's Last Talk

Although Ron Ridenhour visited the Tulane class on Vietnam annually, he allowed taping of his full-length presentation only once, at the time of the 30th anniversary of My Lai. It was the last public talk before he died. He describes how he got the My Lai story and how he came to write the letter that prevented the military's cover-up of My Lai. He addresses what became for him the key question: was My Lai an aberration or an operation - like others only more extreme? And finally he asks: why does it matter that we remember My Lai 30 years later?

Here's what well-known voices in Vietnam Studies have said:

VHS Video Tape: 60 minute talk, 15 minute Q&A.;
$25 individual use, $50 instructional use, plus $5 shipping and handling. Make checks payable to:
Fertel Communications, Inc., 419 Walnut St., New Orleans LA 70118
Proceeds to benefit the Ron Ridenhour Memorial Lecture Fund.

Another tape is also available:
Hugh Thompson, the helicopter pilot who tried to stop the massacre, joins Ron Ridenhour and William Eckhardt, chief prosecutor of the My Lai courts martial, on an oral history panel at the 1994 My Lai Conference at Tulane on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the disclosure of the massacre. For more information, contact Randy Fertel 504-862-0707 or rfertel@aol.com