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In "Alice's Restaurant", Guthrie says that if drafted, he will be forced to commit atrocities. But the song came out in 1967, a year before the My Lai Massacre. What war crimes by US soldiers in Vietnam were known to the American public in 1967?

by /u/ArmandoAlvarezWF in /r/AskHistorians

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