THE smoke lifted quickly from the broad avenues surrounding Saigon’s Gia Long palace. In the bright sunlight, the pattern of violence came clear—raw shell holes, the black tongue-traces of ...

Few events of the Vietnam War are more contentious than the Kennedy administration’s role in the fatal coup d’état against South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. In ...

After their coup, South Viet Nam’s rebels announced that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were killed in an armored car when Nhu scuffled with an army captain over a gun. Hardly ...

Triumph Forsaken The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar Cambridge, 542 pp., $32 In the late summer of 1963, President John Kennedy dispatched two observers to South Vietnam. Their mission was to ...

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 ...