Ngô Đình Diệm (3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. A former mandarin of the Nguyễn dynasty, he was named Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam by Head of State Bảo Đại in 1954. In October 1955, after winning a referendum, he deposed Bảo Đại and established the first Republic of Vietnam (RVN), with himself as president. In November 1963, after constant religious protests and non-violent resistances, Diệm was assassinated, along with his brother, Ngô Đình Nhu, by the bodyguard of the leader of The Army of Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) General Dương Văn Minh during a coup d’état sanctioned by the US. The assassination led to the end of the US-Diệm alliance and the collapse of his regime.
Exactly fifty three years ago right now–at 12:30 p.m. CST (1:30 EST, 18:30 GMT–President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963), the thirty fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, 22 November 1963, in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald (1939 – 1963), he was traveling with his wife, Jacqueline (1929 – 1994), Texas Governor John B. Connally (1917 – 1993), and Connally’s wife, Nellie (1919 – 2006), in a presidential motorcade.
There is a theory that said that J.D. Tippit who was a look-alike of John Kennedy was a victim in the assassination of Kennedy, in a conspiracy, and for the use of his body to cover up the results of the autopsy of John Kennedy. Tippit was supposed to be killed by Oswald who has denied being the killer of Kennedy and Tippit. Seeing this comparison picture of both Tippet and John Kennedy, we can only wonder.
Difficult to know about the intention of the Occult Forces! Historians who study the life and destiny of famous people, those who lead nations and others, sometimes feel themselves strange to learn the history of those whose lives are entwined in Time and Space. Diem and Kennedy were both Catholics, highly educated and respectable persons from respectable families, supported by the Free World, both at the front line of the Great Battle against what Reagan would later call the “Evil Empire”, Diem at the helm for containing the advance of Communism/Maoism in the Extreme Orient, Kennedy in the Western World, with a nearly “Close Encounter” with the “Day After” for the USA in 1963, in a scenario with Nikita Khrushchev. Both were intelligent persons who worked hard for a better future for their nations, in a free and human world, free of the Materialistic ideology of Marxism-Leninism, the one for containing the spread of Communism in Asia and the other leading NATO against the Warsaw Pact, in the Cold War. And both ended their existence tragically. At the news that Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, Diem’s advisor, have been assassinated, Kennedy’s face became extremely pale. He was seriously shocked at that moment and his plan was to have both brothers alive and brought out of Saigon into safer hands. The fate of the Ngo Dinh brothers was kept in the hands of General Duong Van Minh (Big Minh), who gave the fateful signal to his bodyguard – a contract killer – to assassinate Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu in 1963 by raising two fingers of his right hand. The bodyguard helped riddle the two brothers with bullets in the personnel carrier, after having captured them in a Catholic Church where they took refuge in Cholon, the Chinese town of Saigon. The assassination of Kennedy? You put it as a “Vietnam’s revenge? Dragon bites back?” I do not think so. The demise of Diem and Nhu was a great opportunity for the Communist North Vietnamese, not exactly a “Vietnam’s revenge”…to remove two tough opponents in the Second Vietnam War, but it was the beginning of the Greatest Tragedy for 54 000 young US soldiers who died in a battlefield whose extreme conditions of fighting were absolutely unfamiliar to them. Hundreds of thousand other GI and Vietnam Veterans were battered in their soul and body, for the most dramatic experience of their life.
It is ironical that, at the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, the last President of the Republic of Vietnam (1954~1975) was the same man who decided the fate of the Ngo Dinh brothers, and that was Duong Van Minh, who at the same place of the presidential residence (Independence Palace) capitulated ignominiously to the Vietnamese communist forces, signing the date of the dramatic defeat of two greatest armies on Earth of that time, namely the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and the US Army. It is also ironical that Big Minh’s younger brother was an official of the North Vietnamese Army !
I always thought that, should the Ngo Dinh brothers not been assassinated, should Kennedy not become so blemish at the news of the assassination of both brothers, should the two fingers not be shown to Big Minh’s bodyguard, and should the Watergate scandal never happen with Nixon, the United States and Vietnam would have ended in a different path of History, may be a better one. And as I wrote previously, difficult to know about the intention of the Occult Forces!
Strangely, both younger brothers, and respective advisors, Robert Kennedy for John Kennedy, Ngo Dinh Nhu for Ngo Dinh Diem, were also assassinated!
PS: This is part of my memory from my blog commemorating the death of Diem and Kennedy in the month of November 2016. Sorry if you found it long to read. Just for your information, Diem died in Saigon (now called by the Vietnamese communists Ho Chi Minh City) on November 2, 1963, and Kennedy in Dallas, November 22, 1963, just 20 days later.
MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE NGO DINH FAMILY
My father Nguyen Duong Don was the first Minister of Education of the Government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, from 1954 till 1957, then the Ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam in Rome (Quirinal and Vatican) and in Spain. My family comes from Hue (former Imperial capital of Vietnam, during the Nguyen Dynasty (the first emperor being Gia Long, and the second one Emperor Minh Mang, my direct ancestor. I was born on March 15, 1943 together with my twin brother Rene Nguyen Duong Lien, and our grand-mother, Princess Cong Ton Nu Thi Sanh, the grand-daughter of Prince Tung Thien Vuong, the 10th son of Emperor Minh Mang, and a famous Vietnamese poet of Chinese ideograms.
My father during his Mathematics Study in Paris in Ponts-et-Chaussées (Grandes Ecoles) was a friend of Ngo Dinh Nhu in Paris. My father married with my mother Sophie Mohr in Paris while both were students. My mother was a German from Saarland (Saarbruecken). Three elder brothers were born in Paris.
Thus being natives from Hue, our family knew the Ngo Dinh Family long time ago. I remember that the first time we met the Ngo Dinh Nhu family, it was when we went to Dalat, for an excursion to some waterfall. Ngo Dinh Nhu and his wife Madame Nhu (formerly Tran Le Xuan, from the royal family) owned a villa in Dalat. Probably at that period, we met their daughter Ngo Dinh Le Thuy. A minister of the Diem government, Tran Van Lam was also in our company. Another time, I met President Ngo Dinh Diem was when he went to attend a soccer game in Saigon. He was very popular at that period. I was just 12 year-old. It was only in 1963, few months before the assassination of President Diem and his brother Nhu, that I met Ngo Dinh Le-Thuy, a very beautiful young lady, who was accompanying her mother Madame Nhu. We had a dinner, Madame Nhu, Le-Thuy and my father at the Vietnamese Embassy in Via Dandolo 58, Rome in September 1963. Thus we became friends, Le-Thuy and I, and I invited her to visit Palestrina near Rome. Some pictures are still kept for that trip. Le-Thuy had a younger sister Ngo Dinh Le Quyen.
Ernest Nguyen Duong Van with Ngo Dinh Le Thuy and Cristina Blaise de Saxe in Palestrina (near Rome September 1963)
On November 2, 1963, at the time of the assassination of her father Ngo Ding Nhu and her Uncle Ngo Dinh Diem she was with her mother in Beverly Hills, California, since October, and preparing for a trip to Italy. The new government of South Vietnam refused to issue her a visa to return to South Vietnam and she resettled in Europe with her mother.
Lệ Thủy was attending law school in Paris, when on April 12, 1967, at the age of 22, she was killed in an automobile accident in Longjumeau, France.Just over 45 years later, her younger (and only) sister Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên, who married an Italian citizen, was killed in an April 16, 2012, while travelling with a scooter, in automobile accident in Rome, Italy.
Such a tragic family !
Here are some links that may give you more information about the respective personalities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Nhu
https://www.facebook.com/Madame.Ngo.Dinh.Nhu/?fref=ts
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/world/duong-van-minh-85-saigon-plotter-dies.html
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