According to one intriguing theory, John F. Kennedy’s assassination was in response to the murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem a scant 20 days earlier in a CIA-backed coup. By this ...

South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown and assassinated in a military coup. US President Lyndon B Johnson sent American combat troops to Vietnam. This conflict escalated into a ...

President Diem even appointed Madame Nhu's father ‒ his sister-in-law's father ‒ ambassador to the United States. November 1963 marked the assassination of more than JFK ...

The Church Committee soon uncovered the CIA's robust assassination program, targeting anti-American leaders such as Congo's Patrice Lumumba, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, Vietnam's ...

The memorial day of Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination is annually organized by groups and organizations of Vietnamese community in NSW, as well as in other states such as VIC, SA.

The assassination of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, was one of the landmark moments and one of the most remembered events in 20th-century history. The assassination of President Diem of ...

‘Diplomats at War’ Review: Going Rogue at the Embassy JFK often had tenuous control of his own diplomats. Consider the 1963 assassination of South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem.

William Trueheart, right, U.S. chargé d’affaires, and Ngo Dinh Nhu, left, the South Vietnamese president's brother and counselor, greet U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in Saigon in ...

At 7 a.m., in the second-floor study of Saigon’s yellow stucco Freedom Palace, South Viet Nam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem was absorbed in a biography of George Washington, the gift of a recent U ...

The first in the series, Triumph Forsaken (2006), took the story up to the start of the large-scale U.S. military commitment in 1965, faulting the administration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy for ...

Lucien E. Conein, a legendary intelligence agent who was a key liaison between U.S. officials and South Vietnamese generals in the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem, died Wednesday. Mr ...