Court-martial of Howard Levy

Howard B. Levy
Levy being led from courtroom after sentencing
Born
Howard Brett Levy

(1937-04-10) April 10, 1937 (age 87)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.[1]
EducationGraduated from New York University in 1957, MD at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine (1961), interned at Maimonides Medical Center
Occupations
  • Dermatologist
  • activist

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.[2] 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."[3] He considered the Special Forces (Green Berets) "killers of peasants and murderers of women and children".[4]

  1. ^ "The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, A Political, Social, and Military History, Second Edition 2011". ABC-CLIO. p. 655.
  2. ^ Cortright, David (2005). Soldiers In Revolt. Chicago: Haymarket Books. p. 52. ISBN 1931859272.
  3. ^ Carver, Ron; Cortright, David; Doherty, Barbara, eds. (2019). Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War. Oakland, CA: New Village Press. p. 15. ISBN 9781613321072.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYTObit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).