Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Calley, William

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Kienholz was buried in a Kienholz installation: "His corpulent, embalmed body was wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe. There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him and the ashes of his dog Smash in the back. He was set for the afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered by his widow Nancy Reddin Kienholz, rolled like a funeral barge into the big hole."
(10 June 1994)

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		American hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley known for the My Lay Massacre 8 June 1943 (+) is born in Miami, United States. 16 March 1968 (x) Between 347 and 504 unarmed people are killed by the U.S. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division led by Calley in Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam. 5 September 1969 (x) is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the deaths of 109 South Vietnamese civilians on 16 March 1968 near the village of My Lai in Vietnam in Fort Benning, United States. 17 November 1970 (x) Start of the trial against Calley in Fort Leavenworth, United States. 31 March 1971 (x) is sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor for the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre in Fort Leavenworth, United States. 28 April 2024 (-) dies of undisclosed causes in Gainesville, United States.
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