The president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem is captured and killed during an overthrow of the government by South Vietnamese generals. President John Kennedy was aware of the plan to overthrow the ...

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 Vietnam ...

The War divided America and two American diplomats. Here, a Fench soldier bandages a wounded Vietnamese comrade after a skirmish to reopen a link between besieged Dien Bien Phu, Indochina, as it was ...

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.S.

THE bolted and heavily guarded gates of Independence Palace in Saigon and the barbed wire and mine fields that protect the concrete blockhouses and family quarters of the civil guard posts in rural ...

Catholics in southern Vietnam have marked the death anniversary of an assassinated Catholic president who fought for the nation’s human rights, freedom and independence. On Nov. 2, some 30 Catholics ...