| LC control no. | no 99074203 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Medina, Ernest L. |
| Variant(s) | Medina, Ernest |
| Located | Montrose (Colo.) Marinette (Wis.) |
| Birth date | 1936-08-27 |
| Death date | 2018-05-08 |
| Place of birth | Springer (N.M.) |
| Place of death | Peshtigo (Wis.) |
| Field of activity | My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968 |
| Affiliation | United States. Army |
| Profession or occupation | Armies--Officers |
| Found in | After action report, 1971: t.p. (court-martial of Captain Ernest L. Medina) LC database, Mar. 19, 2001 (hdg.: Medina, Ernest; usage not shown) New York times WWW site, viewed May 14, 2018 (in obituary published May 13: Ernest L. Medina; b. Ernest Lou Medina, Aug. 27, 1936, Springer, N.M.; his mother died when he was an infant and his father sent him to live with grandparents in Montrose, Colo.; d. Tuesday [May 8, 2018], Peshtigo, Wis., aged 81; had lived in Marinette [Wis.]; Army captain who was accused of overall responsibility for the March 1968 mass killings of unarmed South Vietnamese men, women, and children by troops he commanded in what became known as the My Lai massacre, but was acquitted at a court-martial) |
| Associated language | eng |
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