# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-calley
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:55:09.698Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-calley"
name: "William Calley"
slug: "william-calley"
description: "William Laws Calley Jr. was a United States Army officer and war criminal, convicted by court-martial of the murder of 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. Calley was released to house arrest under orders by President Richard Nixon three days after his conviction. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia granted him a new trial, but that ruling was overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His initial life sentence having been modified to a term of 20 years and then further reduced to ten, Calley ultimately served three years of house arrest for the murders. Public opinion at the time about Calley was divided. After his dismissal from the U.S. Army and release from confinement, Calley avoided public attention."
tagline: "US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Calley_Jr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1943-06-08"
deathDate: "2024-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.19
  momentum:             11.28
  historical:           20.268784
  currentAttention:     3.964285714285714
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump