Shotgun Murder Of Vietnamese
(N.Z. Prett Auoctatton—Copyright) PHU BAI (South Vietnam), May 19. A United States Marine sergeant who said he killed a prisoner on his lieutenant’s orders, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday on a conviction of premeditated murder, the Associated Press reported.
Sergeant Charles Wilkerson, aged 23, of Houston, Texas, said he felt he did not get a fair trial in the one-day general court martlaL "Suddenly everyone in the
platoon became hard of hearing," he told reporters after being sentenced. "They said they never heard the lieutenant give the order,” he said. Sergeant Wilkerson was convicted by the eight-num Court for shooting a Vietnamese in the head with a shot-gun while the man’s hands were tied behind him. The Vietnamese was a suspected Viet Cong seized In a free-fire zone where civilians are barred.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31375, 22 May 1967, Page 8
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