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OPEN---RESOR AND THE SENATORS
SOUND ON TAPE COMING
LEE: LIVE
Good Evening:
Many of the nation's top politicians cobeerned themselves today with the alledged massacre of hundreds of South Vietnamese civilians in the village o ast year. President Nixon said that if the incident took place as charged it is "abhorrent to the American conscience and a violation of U-S military principles. Most of the reaction to the Mee Lai came after top Army officials went before Congressional committees. Here is a report from N-B-C News Correspondent Charles Quinn.
TAKE VTR
SOUND ON TAPE: 2:52
OUTCUE: "...HARDENED ABOUT IT. BUT I MUST SAY I'I A BIT SICK ABOUT IT."
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Political reaction to My Lai],
script,
November 26, 1969, 10:00 p.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1220936/m1/1/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.