On 11 November 1960, a failed coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was led by Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông and Colonel Nguyễn Chánh Thi of the Airborne Division of the Ar
The rebels demanded the removal of First Lady Madame Nhu (pictured left, with Lyndon Johnson)
Colonel Lansdale (pictured here as a major general), a CIA officer who assisted Diệm in the past, called for the removal of the US ambassador to Saigon
Phan Quang Đán
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Phan Quang Đán was a Vietnamese political opposition figure who was one of only two non-government politicians who won a seat in the 1959 South Vietnamese election for the National Assembly. Subsequen
Dr. Đán in 1955
