1960s Timeline

Apr. 16, 1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem (center) broadcast an impassioned appeal to Communist Viet Cong guerrillas today...

Apr. 10, 1963 - Saigon’s first lady, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, has warned South Vietnamese women against being corrupted by foreigners and has...

Apr. 10, 1963 - Airborne troops of one of South Vietnam’s finest companies pursued Communist guerrillas yesterday and today in the Mekong...

Mar. 28, 1963 - Three American generals came under Communist fire yesterday during a battle in the Mekong River delta 175 miles south of...

Mar. 24, 1963 - The South Vietnamese Government today denounced as an unfounded insult a report of a bipartisan U.S. Senate group headed...

Mar. 17, 1963 - Another major South Vietnamese Government offensive was described today as a costly failure by U.S. military observers....

Mar. 10, 1963 - Soviet charges that the United States was using poison gas in the war in South Vietnam have been branded “wholly false.”...

Mar. 9, 1963 - Communists accused the U.S. today of using “asphyxiation gases” and “noxious chemicals” in South Vietnam, and the Soviet...

Mar. 5, 1963 - “This is the key year,” General Paul D. Harkins (pictured right) said in Saigon today in winding up a mostly optimistic...

Feb. 28, 1963 - Commanders of South Vietnam’s military forces in the Mekong River delta have developed a tendency to avoid contact with...

Feb. 24, 1963 - A Senate study group warned today that the struggle for Vietnamese independence was fast becoming an “American war” that...

Feb. 22, 1963 - Civilian casualties in South Vietnam are being partially attributed to strikes by T-28 and B-26 planes piloted by...

Feb. 20, 1963 - South Vietnamese forces, supported by rocket-firing, American-piloted planes, and helicopters, routed a battalion of...

Feb. 12, 1963 - A team of American special forces soldiers has set up a training camp at the foot of two mountains that are major...

Feb. 8, 1963 - A U.S. bomber pilot who gave his life in Vietnam to save his two crew members may be recommended for the Medal of Honor,...

Feb. 8, 1963 - Air strike activity in South Vietnam has been increasing sharply in the past several weeks with the arrival of new...

Feb. 7, 1963 - Search teams combed jungles in central Vietnam today for a U.S. Air Force co-pilot missing since the crash of his...

Feb. 6, 1963 - A Viet Cong battalion trapped a Government force in thick mangrove forest in the Ca Mau province today and nearly wiped...

Feb. 3, 1963 - A B-26 fighter-bomber carrying two U.S. Air Force captains and a Vietnamese observer crashed while strafing Communist...

Jan. 31, 1963 - A U.S. Army captain was killed today during a running gun fight between Communist guerrillas and South Vietnamese...