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Nov 2, 2023

[VIDEO] CBS Special Report on Vietnam: "Death of a Regime"

Nov. 2, 1963 - The South Vietnamese Government of President Ngo Dinh Diem has fallen in a swift military coup d’état. Both the President...

Nov 2, 2023

President Kennedy Meets with Top Aides on Vietnam

Nov. 2, 1963 - President Kennedy met twice today with his top national-security advisers to formulate a U.S. policy on establishing...

Nov 2, 2023

Sources Say Diem and Nhu Assassinated

Nov. 2, 1963 - While the Saigon radio had announced yesterday that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his powerful brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, had...

Nov 2, 2023

[VIDEO] Nov. 2, 1963 | Madame Nhu Press Conference

Nov. 2, 1963 - In an angry statement read at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Madame Ngo Dinh Dinh Nhu, whose husband...

Nov 2, 2023

Madame Nhu Points Finger at U.S. Government

Nov. 2, 1963 - In Beverly Hills, Calif., today, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu bitterly accused the U.S. Government of inciting and backing the...

Nov 2, 2023

Madame Nhu Points Finger at U.S. Government

Nov. 2, 1963 - In Beverly Hills, Calif., today, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu bitterly accused the U.S. Government of inciting and backing the...

Nov 1, 2023

Kennedy Administration Denies Involvement in Viet Coup

Nov. 1, 1963 - Congressional sources said today that Administration officials had told them the military revolt in South Vietnam had come...

Nov 1, 2023

McNamara Orders Seventh Fleet to South Vietnam Vicinity

Nov. 1, 1963 - The Defense Department ordered ships of the Seventh Fleet to the vicinity of South Vietnam today to protect any Americans...

Nov 1, 2023

President Kennedy Attends Mass in Washington

Nov. 1, 1963 - President Kennedy attended an 11 a.m. mass today at Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. On the church...

Nov 1, 2023

🚨Coup in South Vietnam Deposes President Diem and Brother

Nov. 1, 1963 - The South Vietnamese Government of President Ngo Dinh Diem has fallen in a swift military coup d’état. The insurgents...

Oct 30, 2023

Three U.S. Military Advisers Captured by Viet Cong

Oct. 30, 1963 - Three U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam are believed to have been captured by Communist guerrillas who whipped a...

Oct 29, 2023

Madame Nhu Barred from “My Fair Lady” Film Set

Oct. 29, 1963 - Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu (pictured left with her daughter), First Lady of South Vietnam, arrived in Los Angeles today and...

Oct 27, 2023

Seventh South Vietnamese Buddhist Kills Self in Protest Suicide

Oct. 27, 1963 - A Buddhist monk burned himself to death in front of Saigon’s main Roman Catholic Cathedral this morning in protest...

Oct 21, 2023

Viet Cong Prove an Elusive Foe

Oct. 21, 1963 - More than 4,000 Vietnamese troops, harassed by mine explosions and Communist snipers concealed in tunnels, slogged...

Oct 20, 2023

South Vietnamese Troops Mauled by Viet Cong in Bloodiest Action Since January

Oct. 20, 1963 - Communist Viet Cong guerrillas (pictured), solidly fortified in positions facing hip-deep fields of mud, stopped a...

Oct 18, 2023

Picketers Protest Madame Nhu in Washington

Oct. 18, 1963 - Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, South Vietnam’s controversial First Lady, accused today a “handful of people” within the Kennedy...

Oct 17, 2023

Nhu Says CIA Backs Buddhists in South Vietnam

Oct. 17, 1963 - Ngo Dinh Nhu (pictured), powerful and controversial brother of South Vietnam’s President, Ngo Dinh Diem, said today that...

Oct 13, 2023

TV: Madame Nhu on “Meet the Press”

Oct. 13, 1963 - Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu charged today that unidentified “ambassadors” had “unofficially” asked her and her husband to leave...

Oct 12, 2023

Madame Nhu Egged at Columbia University

Oct. 12, 1963 - Madame Nhu, South Vietnam’s controversial First Lady who was accorded a standing ovation at Fordham University last...

Oct 10, 2023

Twelve U.S. Servicemen Killed in Vietnam Helicopter Crash

Oct. 10, 1963 - Helicopters brought out today the bodies of 12 U.S. servicemen from a rugged mountain area near the Laotian border where...