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March 1968
Robert F. Kennedy
On the same day that New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy announces that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, the men of Charlie Company, 11th Infantry Brigade, under the command of Lt. William Calley, enter the village of My Lai 4. The carnage they commit there will not erupt in the American media until November 1969.
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