Ngô Đình Cẩn was the younger brother and confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and an important member of the Diệm government. Diệm put Cẩn in charge of central Vietnam, stretch
In his youth, Cẩn was a follower of famed anti-French nationalist Phan Bội Châu (pictured).
Remnants of Ngo Dinh Can's villa in Ngu Tay, Thuy An, Hue city.
Ngô Đình Nhu (right), shaking hands with US Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Ngô Đình Cẩn
…Ongoing demonstrations intensified throughout the summer as the regime responded with increased brutality, sparking the toppling of the Diệm regime in a November 1963 coup. Cẩn had been offered asylum by the US Department of State, but ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. had CIA officer Lucien Conein arrest the fallen Ngô…
President Diệm of South Vietnam, deposed in a coup
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, where the Ngô brothers were arrested.
Diệm dead. Initial rumors said that he and his brother committed suicide.