# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-l-haeberle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:36:07.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-l-haeberle"
name: "Ronald L. Haeberle"
slug: "ronald-l-haeberle"
description: "Ronald L. Haeberle is a former United States Army combat photographer best known for the photographs he took of the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968. The photographs were definitive evidence of a massacre, making it impossible for the U.S. Army or government to ignore or cover up. On November 21, 1969, the day after the photographs were first published in Haeberle's hometown newspaper, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Melvin Laird, the Secretary of Defense, discussed them with Henry Kissinger who was at the time National Security Advisor to President Richard Nixon. Laird was recorded as saying that while he would like \"to sweep it under the rug\", the photographs prevented it."
tagline: "United States Army photographer at My Lai"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Haeberle_at_Schofield_Barracks_in_Hawaii_in_November_1967.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.931652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3875864/"
    handle:    "nm3875864"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_L._Haeberle"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84._%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84"
    title: "رونالد ال. هايبيرل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4_%D0%A5%D1%8D%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Рональд Хэберлі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Роналд Хебърли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Haeberle"
    title: "Ronald Haeberle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_L._Haeberle"
    title: "Ronald L. Haeberle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Haeberle"
    title: "Ronald Haeberle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%8D%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4"
    title: "Хэберли, Рональд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q782071"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump