Ngo Dinh Diem After refusing Ho Chi Monh's invitation to join the Communist movement, Ngo Dinh Diem led South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963, when he was killed by his generals in a coup.

Dec. 3, 2002 -- -- President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam had come to power in the 1950s with American assistance, and was expected to help America defeat communism in Vietnam. But by 1963, it ...

The frustrations of the army The tide of expectation rose sharply after the coup, and Diem seemed prepared to accept wise Western and Vietnamese counsel.

In the late summer of 1963, President John Kennedy dispatched two observers to South Vietnam. Their mission was to provide the president an assessment of the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president ...

Saigon, South Vietnam, 1963: A Vietnam marine celebrates on the streets after the successful coup deposing president Ngo Dinh Diem on Nov. 1, 1963, by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam ...

The State Department cable called for President Diem to remove his brother from a position of power and threatened U.S. support for a military coup in South Vietnam if he refused, according to the ...

The story of the coup against Diem was quickly obscured by the real and unmitigated pressures that had led to it—escalating U.S. alarm about the ability of South Vietnam to defeat the Communist ...

Despite intimidation from state security and even reports of assault, hundreds of people attended a commemoration ceremony in southeast Vietnam for John Baptist Ngo Dinh Diem, the former South ...

MUCH of the calamitous situation in South Vietnam had its beginnings under President Ngo Dinh Diem. Yet, though it is easy to catalogue the blunders and errors of his nine-year rule, this dogmatic ...