Today is Saturday, April 4th, 2020.

On this day in 1966, the Buddhist uprising in South Vietnam reached a crucial turning point when Winn-Kau-Kai sent

battalions of South Vietnamese Marines to quash the unrest in Danang and one of

his top commanders openly defied him.

Welcome to today in True Crime, a parcast original.

Today we're covering the South Vietnamese Prime Minister's disbursement of Marines and Rangers

in an effort to suppress civilian protesters.

This occurred just over halfway through the 20-year-long war in Vietnam.

Let's go back to the coastal inlet of Danang on April 4, 1966.

The air was warm, or nearly stale, some would say, in Denang South Vietnam.

The events of that spring seemed to build on top of one another until the atmosphere was bursting with

acrid tension. Such was the environment that awaited a group of South

Vietnamese Marines. In a press conference the day before, South Vietnamese project Vietnamese to the Northern City. Now on April 4th, the South Vietnamese Marines were to be

flown by a US military transport from Saigon, South Vietnam's capital, to

Denang, the Northern city of unrest. The rumble of the

airplane's burly dual engines was an unsettling hymn as the aircraft traversed

the 500 or so miles north.

The men on board didn't know quite what awaited them.

If the events of the months prior were any indication, though,

it wouldn't be pleasant.

The Vietnamese Marines would be landing in an atmosphere of blatant unrest.

Following Prime Minister Kai's press conference,

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