FILM
The week that the Mylai massacres were first reported in the press, I was stopped in front of the Con Ed power plant on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 110th Street by a man who looked drunk. His eyes were red, his hair was tousled, his speech was slurred, — I was there, he kept repeating, I was there, and it wasn’t like that.
FILM
WINTERSOLDIER by Winterfilm in Association with Vietnam Veterans Against the War
The week that the Mylai massacres were first reported in the press, I was stopped in front of the Con Ed power plant on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 110th Street by a man who looked drunk. His eyes were red, his hair was tousled, his speech was slurred, — I was there, he kept repeating, I was there, and it wasn’t like that.
He wasn’t drunk. He was suffering from an emotional jag caused by reading about what had happened in the Vietnamese village. He had never thought about it, he said, not like the newspapers had presented it. It was just something that had happened.
For ten minutes, he described the atrocities he had seen and had committed. He wasn’t denying the grim facts of what had happened, but he insisted that the newspapers had distorted the events. — It wasn’t like that . . .
WINTERSOLDIER, a documentary of the Wintersoldier Investigation held in Detroit, Michigan, in February, 1971, attempts to convey what it was like.