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JFK and the Diem Coup – Provided by the National Security Archive. The Pentagon Papers, Vol. 2 Ch. 4 Archived 24 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine "The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, May–November, 1963", pp. 201–276
St. Francis Xavier's Church, where the Ngo brothers were arrested A pew in the church is marked with a small plaque identifying the spot where President Ngo Dinh Diem was seized after taking refuge here with his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu on 2 November 1963, after fleeing the Presidential Palace.
At one stage, Dong wanted Diem to remain as a "supreme advisory" to a transitional regime made up of military officers and civilians. [23] The plotters unilaterally named Brigadier General Lê Văn Kim, the head of the Vietnamese National Military Academy, the nation's premier officer training school in Da Lat, would be their new prime minister ...
The official newspaper, the Nhan Dan, opined that "By throwing off Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, the US imperialists have themselves destroyed the political bases they had built up for years. The deaths of Diem and Nhu were followed by the disintegration of big fragments of the ... [government] machine." [133] [134]
Ngo Dinh Diem consolidated his power as the President of South Vietnam.He declined to have a national election to unify the country as called for in the Geneva Accords.In North Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh apologized for certain consequences of the land reform program he had initiated in 1955.
Ngo Dinh Diem, who was previously appointed Prime Minister of South Vietnam by Emperor Bao Dại, eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. Viet Minh troops on parade in Hanoi. The Geneva Accords promised elections in 1956 to determine a national government for a united Vietnam.
President Diem, prodded by U.S. advisers, adopted the first of several land reform measures in South Vietnam. This initial program governed the amount of rent that land owners could charge for agricultural land. [9] 8 February. North Vietnam's land reform program was underway and thousands of "landlords" were being executed or imprisoned. Ho ...
Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 70– 80. ISBN 0-7425-4447-8. The Battle of Saigon, by Thê ́Vinh Ngô.