Court-martial of Howard Levy
The court-martial of Howard Levy occurred in 1967. Howard Levy (born April 10, 1937) was a United States Army doctor who became an early resister to the Vietnam War. In 1967, he was court-martialed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for refusing an order to train Green Beret medics on their way to Vietnam. He said it "became clear to me that the Army [was using medics] to 'win hearts and minds' in Vietnamese villages - while still burning them to the ground in search-and-destroy missions." He considered the Special Forces (Green Berets) "killers of peasants and murderers of women and children".
Howard B. Levy | |
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Levy being led from courtroom after sentencing | |
| Born | Howard Brett Levy April 10, 1937 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Graduated from New York University in 1957, MD at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine (1961), interned at Maimonides Medical Center |
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