1960s Timeline

June 8, 1963 - Relations between Buddhists and the South Vietnamese Government appeared to be deteriorating quickly today. A cooling-off...

June 5, 1963 - The Buddhists, who are in conflict with the South Vietnamese Government, expressed the belief today that the United States...

June 4, 1963 - Sixty-seven persons were hospitalized today in Hue, South Vietnam when Government troops used gas grenades to halt a new...

May 31, 1963 - Communist Viet Cong guerrillas were apparently gunning specifically for Americans when they ambushed a government patrol...

May 30, 1963 - General Maxwell Taylor (right), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the featured Memorial Day speaker today in the...

May 30, 1963 - Southeast Asia’s most outspoken neutralist, Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, says he fears war-torn South Vietnam is...

May 29, 1963 - The Pentagon said today that a U.S. Army captain and a private had been killed while on a combat patrol in the central...

May 24, 1963 - Viet Cong guerrillas (pictured) struck against Government outposts and strategic hamlets north and south of Saigon today...

May 22, 1963 - Following are the highlights of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Alabama — The President said he hoped the...

May 18, 1963 - President Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured center) of South Vietnam, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, forecast victory...

May 18, 1963 - South Vietnamese forces scoured the Cambodian border along the Plain of Reeds today and killed at least 40 Communist...

May 15, 1963 - Buddhist leaders in South Vietnam called on President Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) today in Saigon with a list of demands...

May 11, 1963 - The Defense Department identified today a medical technician who was fatally injured in South Vietnam when Communist...

May 9, 1963 - Seven South Vietnamese persons, including five children, were killed today when riot police and troops broke up a...

May 6, 1963 - Communist guerrillas ambushed a U.S. Army lieutenant near Saigon today and killed him and two South Vietnamese companions,...

May 4, 1963 - A potentially explosive document in the hands of a House subcommittee is reported to lay down Administration guidelines for...

May 2, 1963 - President Kennedy paid tribute at the White House today to 240 holders of the Medal of Honor, men whom he called “our most...

Apr. 29, 1963 - Seven American military advisers were injured in South Vietnam today — two in a grenade incident and five when Communists...

Apr. 23, 1963 - Military sources said today that well-armed Viet Cong guerrillas (pictured) overran two strategic hamlets and routed two...

Apr. 18, 1963 - In one of the boldest strokes of their long campaign of subversion in South Vietnam, Communist Viet Cong guerrillas...