The morning of November 13, 1969, the presses rolled at the Chicago Sun-Times with an explosive front-page story: “Officer Charged With Murdering 109 in Viet.” The shocking incident uncovered in the ...
When documentarian Laura Poitras first asked to make a documentary about Seymour Hersh in 2005, the celebrated muckraking journalist said no. But 20 years later, after more of his anonymous sources ...
Fifty years later, the stories that Hersh reported — like the My Lai massacre — now look iconic. But the documentary captures how uncovering corruption is always a mountain to climb. Back then, when ...