While 26 U. S. soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Mỹ Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted.

William Calley was born in Miami, Florida.

Following his commission, Calley was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry Brigade, and began training at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in preparation for deployment to Vietnam.

A number of men assigned under Calley claimed that because he was so disliked some secretly discussed assassinating him.

On November 12, 1969, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh broke the story and revealed that Calley was charged with murdering 109 Vietnamese.

It was the military prosecution's contention that Calley, in defiance of the rules of engagement, ordered his men to deliberately murder unarmed Vietnamese civilians despite the fact that his men were not under enemy fire at all.

In his testimony, Meadlo described that during the day's events, he was standing guard over a few dozen My Lai villagers when Lt. Calley approached him and ordered him to shoot all the civilians.

Another witness named Dennis Conti, who was also reluctant to testify, described the carnage, claiming that Calley had started it and the rest of the 105 soldiers of Charlie Company followed suit.

In his new defense, Calley claimed he was following the orders of his immediate superior, Captain Ernest Medina.

Taking the witness stand, Calley, under the direct examination by his civilian defense lawyer George Latimer, claimed that on the previous day, his commanding officer, Captain Medina, made it clear that his unit was to move into the village and that everyone was to be shot for they all were Viet Cong.

On March 31, 1971, Calley was sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, which includes the United States Disciplinary Barracks, the Department of Defense's only maximum security prison.

Of the 26 officers and soldiers initially charged for their part in the My Lai Massacre or the subsequent cover-up, only Calley was convicted.

In a telephone survey of the American public, 79 % disagreed with the verdict, 81 % believed that the life sentence Calley had received was too stern, and 69 % believed Calley had been made a scapegoat.

On April 1, 1971, only a day after Calley was sentenced, U. S. President Richard Nixon ordered him transferred from Leavenworth prison to house arrest at Fort Benning, pending appeal.

MGM was sold by Credit Lyonnais in 1996, again to Kirk Kerkorian, resulting in the departure of Calley as UA president.

It combined solid service in numerous battles and campaigns with the My Lai massacre, which was committed by a platoon of the division's subordinate 11th Infantry Brigade, led by Lieutenant William Calley.

An example of the Lowthers ' interest in technology could be seen at Stone Pitt when one of the world's earliest steam engines, Engine No. 5 built by Thomas Newcomen and John Calley in 1715 was installed, to help in drainage and haulage.

The film itself, I think, is an interesting onethere's some good work in itbut when they came to me with it I told John Calley, who was running Warner Bros. then, that I didn't want it.

Loved One co-producer John Calley was a frequent visitor to Southern's Chateau Marmont suite, and he hired Southern to work on several subsequent Filmways projects, including The Cincinnati Kid and Don't Make Waves.

It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols and John Calley.

Throughout the chapter, Dixon defends the notion that Calley may have killed a pregnant woman, covering many factors ; If the pregnant woman was showing or not, if Calley could have communicated with her, if he really did know she was pregnant, whether the woman asked Calley to give her an abortion or not, etc.

* 1969 – My Lai Massacre: U. S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

* September 5 – Lieutenant William Calley is charged with 6 counts of premeditated murder, for the 1968 My Lai Massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, Vietnam.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.

** Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

William Laws Calley ( William Laws Calley, Jr .) ( born June 8, 1943 ) is a convicted American war criminal and a former U. S. Army officer found guilty of murder for his role in the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.

While attempting to return to Miami, his car broke down in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Calley then reported to a recruiting official, enlisting in the U. S. Army on July 26, 1966.

When Meadlo balked at the orders, Calley backed off 20 feet ( 6 m ) or more and opened fire on the people himself, and Meadlo joined in.

( The judge had released Calley on bail on February 27, 1974, but an appeals court reversed it and returned Calley to U. S. Army custody on June 13, 1974.

Under his supervision, Calley revived two long-running franchises, the Pink Panther and James Bond films, and touched on an aspect of UA's past by giving the widest release ever to a film with an NC-17 rating, Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas's controversial Showgirls.

He attempted to protect the perpetrator of My Lai, Army 2nd Lt. William Calley, by quickly holding hearings of his subcommittee on My Lai, calling every major witness to the event ( including Thompson ) before the subcommittee, and then refusing to release the transcripts of the testimony, so that military prosecutors would be prohibited from calling those persons as witnesses at Calley's court martial.

Tom Hanks is expected to reprise his role as Langdon, and Brian Grazer and John Calley have signed on to produce the film, though it has not been confirmed if Ron Howard will return to direct.

Next to that he played the lead role of Lieutenant James Calley on the Showtime series Total Recall 2070 and the 1998 telefilm by the same name.

Wills was born in Totnes in Devon, the second child to Dr William Wills ( 1800 – 28 September 1889 ) and Sarah Mary Elizabeth Wills ( née Calley, 23 December 1800 – 19 February 1880 ).

* Court-martialed Vietnam War mass-murderer William Calley sporting the guileless grin of Alfred E. Neuman, complete with the parody catchphrase ' What, My Lai?

* The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England, the first practical device to harness the power of steam to produce mechanical work.

Indiana's governor asked all state flags to be flown at half-staff for Calley, and Utah's and Mississippi's governors also disagreed with the verdict.

We intend to show that war crimes in Vietnam did not start in March 1968, or in the village of Son My or with one Lieutenant William Calley.

Vick jewelry store in Columbus since 1975, and moved to downtown Atlanta to live with his son, William Laws Calley III.

* William Calley – In connection with My Lai Massacre

* The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England.

In the chapter, the citizen in question is concerned with William Calley's killing of twenty-two Vietnamese villagers at My Lai, but he is " seriously troubled by the possibility that Lieutenant Calley may have committed an abortion ".