Prosecuting the My Lai Tragedy

Our featured guest, Col. William Eckhardt, U.S. Army (Retired), practiced law for 30 years with the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Over the course of his long career, providing legal services, litigated in federal and military courts, taught at the University of California at Berkeley, taught at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and taught and held the Dwight David Eisenhower Chair of National Security at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He was awarded The Federal Younger Lawyer Award for his work in the My Lai court-martial cases and he is the recipient of numerous military awards. He is also an author and editor of several significant publications including editing “Law for the Joint Warfighter.”