The president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem is captured and killed during an overthrow of the government by South Vietnamese generals. President John Kennedy was aware of the plan to overthrow the ...

Vietnam's last emperor ascended to the throne in 1932 and cooperated with the Japanese occupying Vietnam during World War II. After the war, he briefly joined ranks with Vietnamese communist leader Ho ...

Whether an assassin wants to silence someone over mysterious secrets, act for a cause, or eliminate a rival, the concept […] ...

Few events of the Vietnam War are more contentious than the Kennedy administration’s role in the fatal coup d’état against South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. In ...

Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and then served as the first President of South Vietnam from 1955 until he was captured and ...

While South Viet Nam struggled through the sixth week of its deepest political trauma since the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem 2½ years ago, Washington could only watch, agonize and pray. In all the ...

Catholics in southern Vietnam have marked the death anniversary of an assassinated Catholic president who fought for the nation’s human rights, freedom and independence. On Nov. 2, some 30 Catholics ...