William Calley, face of My Lai massacre in Vietnam War, dies at 80

William Laws Calley Jr., the US Army lieutenant who led the platoon responsible for the My Lai massacre, died at the age of 80. The My Lai massacre, which occurred in 1968, resulted in the deaths of at least 347 unarmed Vietnamese villagers, including the youngest confirmed victim who was 10 years old. The US military reported that 24 entire families were killed. The massacre was one of the worst war crimes in American military history. Calley was court-martialed and convicted in 1971, but he lived in obscurity for decades after the incident.