Robert Kennedy on a Possible Coup in South Vietnam
Robert Kennedy on a Possible Coup in South Vietnam
Robert Kennedy cautions against supporting a coup against South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem.
President John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the United States, 1961-1963.
Biographical sketch from American President.
Robert F. Kennedy was United States Attorney General, 1961-1964.
Biographical sketch from jfklibrary.org.
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Robert McNamara was Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968.
Biographical sketch from the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
JFK Daily Diary, October 29, 1963.
Meeting Tape, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. Raw audio file available at the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings.
"Telegram from the Ambassador in Vietnam (Lodge) to the Department of State," October 29, 1963 Source: U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian.
Oral History from a U.S. Navy Nurse in Saigon during November 1963 coup against the South Vietnamese government. Source: Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center.
CIA memo, "The Situation in South Vietnam," November 2, 1963 Source: National Security Archive.
Bibliographies
Bibliography - Vietnam Conflict, Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Bibliography of the Vietnam War, Prof. Edward E. Moise, Clemson University.
Vietnam War Bibliography, Richard Jensen, University of Illinois-Chicago.
Scholarship
Wesley R. Fishel, "The Eleventh Hour in Vietnam," Asian Survey, Vol. 5, No. 2, A Survey of Asia in 1964, Part II (California: Feb. 1965), pp. 98-107.
Ellen J. Hammer, A Death in November: America in Vietnam, 1963 (Oxford: 1988).
Howard Jones, Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War (New York: 2003).
Fredrik Logevall, "Vietnam and the Question of What Might Have Been," in Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisisted, ed. Mark J. White (New York: 1998), 19-62.
David Halberstam, The Best and The Brightest (New York: 1969).
Archives
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
U.S. Department of State: Office of the Historian, Vietnam, August-December 1963.
Virtual Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University.
Documents Relating to the Vietnam War, Mt. Holyoke College.
Websites
JFK and the Diem Coup, The National Security Archive.
The Wars for Viet Nam, Vassar College.
Vietnam Online, American Experience, pbs.org.
November 4, 1963, Cassette M, (Dictabelts), JFKL.
In this recording, made on the evening of Monday, November 4, 1963, less than three weeks before he himself would eventually be assassinated, Kennedy reflected upon the tumultuous events that had transpired in Saigon over the previous weekend, the overthrow and murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Ding Nhu.
Robert Kennedy on a Possible Coup in South Vietnam
See Stephanie van Hover, Marc J. Selverstone, and Patrice Preston-Grimes, "Window Into the White House," Social Education, vol. 72, no. 3 (April 2008), 130-135.
Teaching with the Tapes
Chester Pach, "The United States in the 1960s," Ohio Univesity.
Jeff Woods, "White House Tapes," Arkansas Tech University.