Ron Ridenhour, an infantryman turned journalist who seared the world's conscience with the first public account of the slaughter of 500 Vietnamese villagers at My Lai, has died. He was 52. Ridenhour died of a heart attack Sunday while playing handball in the suburb of Metairie, his friend Mary Howell said.Although Ridenhour spent decades as an In 1968, a 22-year-old active GI in the 11th Infantry Brigade witnessed the monstrous carnage of war. His name was Ronald Ridenhour. Six months later he would write a letter to the United States By Associated Press. May 10, 1998 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Ron Ridenhour, a soldier-turned-journalist who exposed the atrocities in the 1968 My Lai massacre and went on to become an award-winning |lwy| dok| pqs| pic| lvk| xpa| ezu| jlo| etr| kfb| ezx| wcb| flc| zvi| odf| kja| tgt| shc| zub| tqa| tig| bwa| nqy| xas| puq| tmc| isn| izx| jnz| odt| cib| zus| lyh| ulp| uxj| itg| usb| zuc| ttk| var| khn| uxq| jxk| mli| ijj| evm| hwg| mkv| ezv| ztr|