Waving flags and beating drums, former South Vietnamese military members paused to remember Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of South Vietnam. They were joined by residents and Westminster city ...

Fifty years ago this coming All Saints’ Day, the United States government concluded its patronage of Ngo Dinh Diem by dispatching him from the presidency of South Vietnam. His removal, in a ...

Vietnam's last emperor ascended to the throne in 1932 and cooperated with the Japanese occupying Vietnam during World War II. After the war, he briefly joined ranks with Vietnamese communist leader Ho ...

Diem had ruled South Vietnam for two years after winning a referendum with 98.2 per cent of the vote, including 605,000 votes in Saigon where the electoral roll had 450,000 names. He arrived in ...

For the first time, Catholics and others attended a memorial service for the president murdered on 2 November 1963 by his generals backed by Washington. A nationalist and patriot, he represented an ...

As Americans mark the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy assassination’s this week, they would do well to recall the death of another president in November 1963. Ngo Dinh Diem, the founding leader of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1978, Time magazine donated ...

On this day in 1963, the State Department cabled Henry Cabot Lodge, the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, with word that Washington could no longer tolerate the influence of Ngo Dinh Nhu in the regime ...

ROME -- Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, the outspoken beauty who served as South Vietnam's unofficial first lady early on in the Vietnam War and earned the nickname "dragon lady" for her harsh criticism of ...