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 ...
Only once since he took office in the dark days after Dienbienphu had Premier Ngo Dinh Diem stirred from the demoralized capital of Saigon. Last week, through dust and monsoon rain, he toured the ...
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 ...
In A.D. 40 the legendary Trung sisters led a Vietnamese rebellion against the Chinese. They fought astride elephants and, upon victory, ruled as queens. Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, who died April 24 at 87, ...
The only mother-daughter pair to appear together on Meet the Press traveled a long way to be on the program: South Vietnam’s Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, and her daughter Mademoiselle Le Thuy were the Meet ...
In 1963, Alice McDermott reminds us in her novel “Absolution,” both the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and the president of Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, were Catholics. This fact holds a ...