Credited on the record as Pete Hamill, narrated by Rosko.
The Killers
1970 · Flying Dutchman FDS-118 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Rosko
- Credited on the record as
- Pete Hamill, narrated by Rosko
- Title
- The Killers
- Release
- Massacre at My Lai
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Flying Dutchman # FDS-118
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Pete Hamill
- Genre
- Jazz · Jazz · Spoken Word
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
In the track "The Killers", Hamill suggested that all Americans "share in mass murder". He referenced Ronald L. Haeberle - a United States Army photographer who took the photographs of the My Lai Massacre in March 1968. He sold his private photographs to The Plain Dealer, which published them on 20 November 1969.34Sources3The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory (Kendrick Oliver, 2006)↩4cleveland.com: Plain dealer exclusive my lai massacre photos by ronald haeberle↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: All of us must sleep tonight in the knowledge that we share / In mass murder, can we look deep into the photographs by Ronald L. Haeberle and deny what they tell us? / That girl...she is about 10 and terrified / Hiding behind a shrunken woman / In a moment she is about to be liberated forever by the guns of Americans / We don't know her name...we will never know
About the artist
Born 24 June 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Died 5 August 2020, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Themes
From the release Massacre at My Lai
In collections
Jazz Songs · My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]