Kennedy supported a coup in South Vietnam.
Ngo Dinh Diem was the leader of South Vietnam until he was assassinated in November of 1963
John F. Kennedy was President. 1960 to 1963
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Ngô Đình Diệm was assassinated during the Vietnam War in a military coup d'etat of South Vietnam.John F. Kennedy was assassinated during the Vietnam War by a US citizen.
The secretary of State during Kennedy's administration, Dean Rusk, who Ambrose and Brinkley write in the Rise of Globalism, stated that South Vietnam was its own independent entity by the Geneva settlement of 1954, which he explained in 1963, which defined that there is a North and South Vietnam, which allowed for United States intervention into Vietnam.
Kennedy's unhappiness with the corrupt Diem regime in South Vietnam led to his tacit approval of a coup to overthrow Diem in 1963. However, the coup resulted in political instability and ultimately contributed to the escalation of the Vietnam War.
John F. Kennedy was shot in the year 1963.(:
Diem was assassinated the same year Kennedy was in 1963. Thieu remained president until his country fell to the communists, then evacuated to the US, and died in Boston, Mass.
No 1963 Kennedy half dollars exist. 1963 is the last year of the Franklin half dollar. 1964 is the first year for Kennedy.
Eisenhower 1955-1960, Kennedy 1961-1963 (assassinated in 1963), Johnson 1964-1968, Nixon 1969-1973 (resigned-Watergate Scandal), Ford 1974-1975.
With Kennedy gone, WWII Generals got the green light to turn Vietnam from a guerrilla war into a WWII conventional war...with B52s, tanks, and a battleship (USS New Jersey).
Cate Kennedy was born in 1963.