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To: cableguymn
I've read something like this before. Hmmm.... "On orders from U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge, the American ambassador to South Vietnam, refused to meet with Diệm. Upon hearing that a coup d'état was being designed by ARVN generals led by General Dương Văn Minh, the United States gave secret assurances to the generals that the U.S. would not interfere. Dương Văn Minh and his co-conspirators overthrew the government on November 1, 1963. "The coup was very swift. On November 1, with only the palace guard remaining to defend President Diệm and his younger brother, Ngô Đình Nhu, the generals called the palace offering Diệm exile if he surrendered. However, that evening, Diệm and his entourage escaped via an underground passage to Cholon, where they were captured the following morning, November 2. The brothers were executed in the back of an armoured personnel carrier by Captain Nguyen Van Nhung while en route to the Vietnamese Joint General Staff headquarters. Diệm was buried in an unmarked grave in a cemetery next to the house of the U.S. ambassador."
4 posted on 02/02/2011 7:19:52 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Freedom is saying "No!" to the Feds, and getting away with it. "Speak 'NO' to Power!")
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To: ExGeeEye

Dude...

Don’t be diss’ng the Pre-Messiah.


20 posted on 02/02/2011 7:42:26 PM PST by Dryman ("FREE THE LONG FORM!")
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To: ExGeeEye

The unofficial scuttlebut was that JFK agreed to the assasination.

This type of meddling is very dangerous, to Americans.


59 posted on 02/03/2011 6:29:37 AM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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