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Ronald L. Haeberle (born circa 1940) is a former United States Army photographer best known for the photographs he took of the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968. Some of the (black and white) photographs he took were made using an Army camera and were either subject to censorship or did not depict any Vietnamese casualties when published in an Army newspaper. On the other hand, Haeberle took color photographs with his own camera while on duty the same day, which he kept and later sold to the media. The then-Sgt. Haeberle, having returned to his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio after an honorable discharge, offered them to ''The Plain Dealer''; the newspaper published some of them on November 20, 1969. Haeberle soon after sold the photos to ''Life'' magazine, which were published in the December 1, 1969 issue.〔Massacre at My Lai. Life, December 5th, 1969: 39.〕 One of the photos in particular became iconic of the massacre, in large part because of its use in the ''And babies'' poster, which was distributed around the world used in protest marches where it was televised and reproduced in newspapers. Lieutenant General Peers' contrary statement to the press in 1970 notwithstanding,〔http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o21eVBvEXhI〕 in 2009, Haeberle admitted that he destroyed a number of photographs he took during the My Lai Massacre. Unlike the photographs of the dead bodies, the destroyed photographs depicted Americans in the actual process of murdering Vietnamese civilians. ==Background== According to Camilla Griggers, professor of Visual Communication and Linguistics at California State University:〔Camilla Benolirao Griggers, ''"War and the Politics of Perception,"'' chapter 1 from the essay "Visualizing War"〕
As is evident from comments made in a 1969 telephone conversation between United States National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, revealed recently by the National Security Archive, the photos of the war crime were too shocking for senior officials to stage an effective cover-up. Secretary of Defense Laird is heard to say, ''"There are so many kids just lying there; these pictures are authentic."'' Haeberle later testified that he personally saw about 30 different American soldiers kill about 100 civilians. According to the investigation, Haeberle previously "withheld and suppressed from proper authorities the photographic evidence of atrocities he had obtained" despite "having a particular duty to report any knowledge of suspected or apparent war crimes".〔(Mai Lai Inquiry Findings and Recommendations )〕 However Haeberle had claimed in his testimony that he did not turn in his photographic film of the atrocities to the brigade information office, because "if you take a photograph of a general smiling wrong in the photograph, you destroyed that photograph", therefore Haeberle felt his photographs would have been destroyed if he had turned them in as was standard practice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ronald L. Haeberle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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