On 27 February 1962, the Independence Palace in Saigon, South Vietnam, was bombed by two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots, Second Lieutenant Nguyễn Văn Cử and First Lieutenant Phạm Phú Q
Independence Palace before the bombing
An A-1 Skyraider of the Vietnamese air force similar to the one used in the attack
Ngo Dinh Diem 25 November 1954
On November 1, 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party of the Republic of Vietnam were deposed by a group of CIA-backed Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who
1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing
…sometime I'm going to get shot right in the back of the neck. Sometime they'll get me that way". (He and Nhu were deposed and shot dead during the November 1963 coup.) Diệm reacted to the assassination attempt by cracking down on political dissidents and further tightening press control. Off the record, one official…
President Diệm of South Vietnam, deposed in a coup
Diệm's brother Ngô Đình Nhu (right), shaking hands with then US Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1961
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, where the Ngô brothers were arrested.
Diệm dead. Initial rumors said that he and his brother committed suicide.