My Lai, Kent State, Pentagon Papers
My Lai was a massacre performed by American soldiers on innocent villagers in Vietnam during the Vietnam war. After the Tet offensive soldiers were ordered to destroy the village of My Lai as it was believed that Viet Cong soldiers hid amongst the villagers. The soldiers found no insurgents in the village of the morning of March 16, 1968. Lt. Williams Calley, a platoon leader, ordered the execution of hundred of villagers where the villagers would be forced into ditches and shoot or blown up by a hand grenade.
Students at Kent State where protesting against Nixon who they claimed was expanding the war not shrinking it. The students started rioting and started burning buildings which destroyed a ROTC building and other local property. The Governor of OH responded by sending in the national guard who would end up firing their rifles at the students killing 4 and wounding several others.
The Pentagon Papers were a set of documents prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. These papers would end being released to the New York Times, who would end up publishing it, by Daniel Ellsberg. These papers demonstrated how the Johnson administration had lied to the public and congress about what was occurring in Vietnam specifically how the US had enlarged the scale of the war to involve nearby countries as well as coastal raid on North Vietnam.