In the fall of 1963 American efforts to build a democratic firewall against Communism in South Vietnam were failing. The country's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, ran the nation like a fiefdom.

Ngo Dinh Diem’s government was very unpopular with ordinary Vietnamese people in South Vietnam, and so it was no surprise when they began to give their support to another organisation - the ...

Ngo Dinh Diem’s government was unpopular with ordinary people in South Vietnam, and so it was no surprise when they began to give their support to an opposition organisation - the National ...