President Richard Nixon may have been personally behind an attempt to cover up the brutal killing of over 500 Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers in the South Vietnam village of My Lai in 1968, according to historians who spoke with CBS journalist Evie Salomon. Handwritten notes by Nixon's chief of staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman taken during a
Does New Look At Documents Reveal Nixon’s Hand In My Lai Cover-Up?
On the 46th anniversary of the massacre, historians say that internal documents reveal presidential interference with war-crime prosecution.