** FILE ** Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson speaks with reporters at the Pentagon in this Dec. 4, 1969 file photo in Washington, D.C. Thompson, a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot who rescued unarmed Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during what became known as the My Lai massacre, died early Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, his biographer and a hospital spokesman confirmed. He was 62. (AP Photo/File)