The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The president of South Vietnam was overthrown and murdered in a coup in November 1963 - with the support of the American government.
Lucy Burns speaks to Ngo Dinh Diem's niece Elisabeth Nguyen Thi Thu Hong, and American official Rufus Phillips.
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| 1:09.6 | world service today we're going back to 1963 when the president of South Vietnam was |
| 1:16.0 | overthrown and assassinated in a coup with the support of the American government. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Lucy Burns and I've been speaking to two people who knew |
| 1:24.5 | President No Dinz Yem. In Saigon, President Diem reviews his last military parade. |
| 1:30.4 | Eight years of controversial and repressive rule by the members of one family are about |
| 1:35.8 | to crash in revolution. |
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