Ngo Dinh Diem
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Instead, the United States continued the fight, giving full backing to Ngo Dinh Diem, the autocratic, anti-Communist leader of South Vietnam.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2021
Charles McCarry’s classic “The Tears of Autumn” pins it on the Vietnamese, a response to the U.S.-backed coup against the country’s president, Ngo Dinh Diem, three weeks before Kennedy’s death.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2018
The United States also supported a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem, in South Vietnam, in 1963, that ended in his death.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 7, 2018
He also refused to undertake an investigation with Nixon’s unsavory deputy Charles Colson into the assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2015
In South Vietnam, a U.S.-backed leader named Ngo Dinh Diem took power in the capital city of Saigon.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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