May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 397

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
HAEBERLE, SERGEANT RONALD L. (active 1960s)
"Bodies of women and children are shown on a road leading from the village of My Lai massacre, South Vietnam." Ferrotyped silver print, 6 1/4x8 3/4 inches (15.9x22.2 cm.), with a Wire Service caption on recto and notations and a date stamp on verso. 1968; printed 1969

Additional Details

Sgt. Haeberle took this photograph in 1968, when he was on duty with the unit that entered the village. But the picture was not made public until November 30, 1969, when it first appeared in print.