Despite intimidation from state security and even reports of assault, hundreds of people attended a commemoration ceremony in southeast Vietnam for John Baptist Ngo Dinh Diem, the former South ...

Fifty years ago this coming All Saints’ Day, the United States government concluded its patronage of Ngo Dinh Diem by dispatching him from the presidency of South Vietnam. His removal, in a ...

In Saigon’s yellow stucco Freedom Palace, South Viet Nam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem woke with a start. Mortar shells were falling on the lawn, and paratroopers were assaulting the palace gate. Tough, ...

It was midnight in Saigon. The windows of Freedom Palace were open, and Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, in grey striped pajamas, was pacing his third-floor bedroom. Suddenly, through the sultry night, Diem ...

As Americans mark the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy assassination’s this week, they would do well to recall the death of another president in November 1963. Ngo Dinh Diem, the founding leader of ...