On November 2, 1963, South Vietnamese army officers murdered their president of 9 years, Ngo Dinh Diem, and took management of the nation’s authorities. The American hand was invisible on the time, however regime change got here to fruition solely due to energetic encouragement by the U.S. ambassador, who believed {that a} coup would enhance South Vietnam’s warfare effort. Within the months that adopted, nonetheless, South Vietnam skilled a succession of coups and countercoups, whose debilitating results drew the US additional into the Vietnam warfare. Because the disaster intensified, South Vietnamese and American contributors raged in opposition to each other concerning the deserves and penalties of deposing Diem. Though most of these people are not with us, the talk and a few of its ardor have survived.
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