The
Republic of Viet Nam
President
Ngo Dinh Diem
Cố Tổng
Thống Ngô Ðình Diệm
Một Lòng
Vì Nước Vì Dân
(1/03/1901
- 11/02/1963)
visited
Memorial webpage
Ngo
Dinh Diem, the first elected President
of
the Republic of South Vietnam
The United
States President Eisenhower greeted
South Vietnam
President Ngo Dinh Diem in Washington, 05/08/1957.
President
of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem, left,
is welcomed
in ceremonies at Washington National Airport.
With him is
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and behind them, from left,
Air Force
Chief of Staff General Nathan Twining, Secretary of State
John Foster
Dulles and presidential aide and pilot, Colonel William C. Draper.
Left: Vice
President Johnson visiting President Ngo Dinh Diem at Independence Palace,
Saigon.
Right: President
Diem and Ambassador Lodge four days before the coup d'etat (Dalat, October
28th, 1963).
The Generals
who betrayed President Ngo Dinh Diem for U.S. money.
Republic of
Vietnam Anniversary, October 26th, 1963, 5 days before the coup d'etat.
Left: General
Duong
Van Minh, General Le Van Kim, Colonel Nguyen Van Y, General
Tran
Van Don.
(Colonel Nguyen
Van Y, Chief of Saigon Police, was later jailed by the three Generals in
this picture.)
Right: Generals
Kim, Dinh, Don, Vy, and Xuan under house arrest in Dalat, 1964.
The U.S. initially
supported President Diem but six years later architected a coup d'etat
using General
Duong Van Minh, Mai Huu Xuan, Ton That Dinh, and others ... ).
General Mai
ordered the murder of President Diem, Advisor Nhu, Colonel
Le Quang Tung,
Colonel Ho
Tan Quyen, LTC Le Quang Trieu and other Vietnamese Special Forces Staff.
To cover up
the blunder, US press reported that President Diem was corrupted.
When he was
assasinated, he owned only one very small and simple home.
The death of
President Diem was a political embarasement for President Kennedy.
Less than three
weeks after President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated,
President
John F. Kennedy was likewise killed by an assassin's bullet,
and the burden
of Vietnam passed to Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
Johnson supported
South Vietnam's ineffectual military rulers with
extensive
military and economic aid and, beginning in 1965,
large numbers
of U.S. ground troops. Ten years and
58,000 American
deaths later, the communists with
Russia-China's
aid took over South Vietnam.
Buddhist
flag incident - US involvement - Coup General
Phone
conversation: President Diem and Ambassador Lodge
A
rebutal of Edwin E. Moise's view on President Diem
(by a Vietnamese
compatriot looking back at his death)
CIA
Director William Colby, an Oral History (Interview)
1954
Letter from President Eisenhower to President Diem
1961
Letter from President Diem to President Kenndy
1962
Letter from President Kennedy to President Diem
Emperor
Bao Dai and President Ngo Dinh Diem
CIA
judgments on President Kennedy and President Johnson
on
overthrowing President Diem and to go "BIG"
(CIA - Center
for the Study of Intelligence Report)
…. even
more explicit pro-coup sentiment welled up within CIA as 1963 wore on,
but virtually
all of CIA's senior officers-- including O/NE's Sherman Kent,
DDP Far East
Division Chief William Colby,
senior DDI
officers Huntington D. Sheldon and R. Jack Smith,
DDCI Marshall
S. Carter, and, most important, DCI John McCone--
continued
to urge caution about the idea of overthrowing Diem.
President Ngo
Dinh Diem at Lasan Taberd Highschool, Saigon
President
Ngo Dinh Diem with the Ngo Dinh family at Phu Cam, Hue.
President
Diem with the Ngo Dinh family.
President Ngo
Dinh Diem, brothers Ngo Dinh Nhu, Bishop Ngo Dinh Thuc.
Mrs. Nhu,
sister and Ngo Dinh Nhu's children.
President Diem
praying in church.
A young man.
The President
was murdered on his way to church
on November
2nd, 1963.
The
tragic Beginning of how American took control of the Vietnam War.
President Ngo
Dinh Diem and his brother Nhu were murdered by Captain Nhung
at the order
of General Mai Huu Xuan, General Big Minh, and CIA Lou Conein.
President Diem
was betrayed by his American friends and President Kennedy.
Ten years
later President Thieu and the South Vietnamese were once again
betrayed by
President Nixon, Henry Kissinger at Paris conference.
(UPI photograph taken by an Englishman,
Mr. Hugh Van Ess)
The
tragic End came twelve years later on April 30th, 1975.
Eventually
three millions Vietnamese fled the country, hundreds of thousands
"boat-people"
died in the China sea, and countless thousands of former
ARVN Officers,
goverment Officials died in "re-education" camps.
Vietnam
became one of the poorest country.
TIẾC
THƯƠNG
(Kẻ
hậu sinh xin đốt nén hương lòng tưởng niệm
nhân
ngày giỗ Cố Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm,
vị
Tổng Thống khả kính đầu tiên
của
nước Việt Nam Cộng Hòa)
Một
ánh sao băng, tắt giữa trời
Giang
sơn từ đấy tối thêm thôi!
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người nghĩa khí tàn cơn mộng
Tiếc
bậc tài hoa úa mảnh đời!
Khinh
bọn túi cơm, loài rắn rết
Giận
phường giá áo, lũ đười ươi
Nếu
không phản phúc, không tham vọng
Đất
nước giờ đây hẳn kịp người!
Ngô
Minh Hằng
Trích
"Có Những Vùng Trời"
11-02-2002
visited President
Ngo Dinh Diem
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