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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:
- Ron Ridenhour's last lecture is a compelling account of one man's effort to learn the truth, however difficult and whatever the personal cost to him, and to expose the horrors of My Lai. It must be seen and its lessons absorbed. -- George Herring, U. of Kentucky, author of "America's Longest War"
- No one has ever spoken so powerfully about these issues, or with such clarity and vision. Ron's voice will be missed. -- Tim O'Brien, author of "The Things They Carried", etc.
- Ron Ridenhour was a profoundly principled human being and this lecture is a spellbinding event. You cannot avert your eyes from the sight of this man wrestling with his own soul and the soul of an age. How terribly sad that this voice has now fallen silent. How fortunate to have this image of him. -- Robert Olen Butler, author of "A GoodScent from a Strange Mountain" (Pulitzer Prize)
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