Cam Ne

Morley Safer, correspondent for CBS News, reporting on the systematic burning of South Vietnamese villages by US Marines in Cam Ne, Vietnam, 1965.

Morley Safer’s coverage of the Vietnam War changed everything

Conflict

When a CBS news correspondent filmed US Marines setting fire to Vietnamese homes with Zippo lighters, America was stunned.

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