Saigon, Vietnam: President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam seated at desk in Independence Palace in Saigon. The 57-year-old bachelor, a dedicated foe...
The body of Ngo Dinh Diem , former president of South Vietnam, in an armoured personnel carrier after his assassination in a CIA-backed coup led by...
Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem reviews the troops during a parade in Saigon to celebrate the anniversary of Vietnamese independence.
Ngo Dinh Diem was the first President of South Vietnam . His rule proved authoritarian, elitist, nepotistic, and corrupt. A Catholic, Diem pursued...
Portrait Of The New Head Of The South Vietnamese State, Ngo Dinh Diem, Was Displayed On The Facade Of Saigon'S Town Hall On November 2 The Day After...
President Ngo Dinh Diem of Free Vietnam is seen kneeling during midnight Mass, held on grounds of the Presidential mansion palace, Saigon , Vietnam,...
Body of Ngo Dinh Diem. Lying in the armored personnel carrier. A smiling Vietnamese officer leans over him. Diem and his brother chief advisor were...
Military advisor Col. McCown accompanies South Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem on a tour of the president's summer home in Pleiku.
South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem watching an agricultural show just minutes after an assassination attempt had been made on his life.
Premier Ngo Kinh Diem of Vietnam and Gen. Paul Ely, French Commissioner General and Supreme Commander in Indochina, watched the tricolor slowly...
President Dwight Eisenhower with John Foster Dulles and South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, Washington 1957.
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem Talks with standard-bearing members of the Civil Guard during a ceremony marking a denunciation of Communism...
As part of his Goodwill Tour of Southeast Asia, American Vice President Lyndon B Johnson meets with Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem at...
Saigon, South Vietnam: In photo just obtained by UPI, the bodies of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, disguised...
As a protest against the Ngo Dinh Diem government's anti-Buddhist policies, a young Buddhist monk performs a ritual suicide, by self immolation, in...
The South Vietnamese presidential family, Ngo Dinh Le Thuy her mother, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, Diem's brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, another brother,...
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem 1901 - 1963), at a fair near Saigon shortly after an attempt on his life was foiled.
Vietnamese refugees board LST 516 for their journey from Haiphong, North Vietnam, to Saigon, South Vietnam during Operation Passage to Freedom,...
After the end of the French rule in 1954s, Catholicism declined in the North, where the Communists regarded it as a reactionary force opposed to...
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and General Lawton Collins talk during the latter's final visit to Independence Palace, Saigon , Vietnam, May 13, 1955. Collins...
As a protest against the Ngo Dinh Diem government's anti-Buddhist policies, a young Buddhist monk performs a ritual suicide, by self immolation, in...
Banner and flag-carrying crowds march past the official residence of their new leader Ngo Dinh Diem to celebrate his overwhelming victory in the...
Body of Ngo Dinh Diem. Lying in the armored personnel carrier. A smiling Vietnamese officer leans over him. Diem and his brother chief advisor were...
Inauguration of First President of Vietnam Republic. Saigon, South Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, prime minister of Vietnam, is shown as he took the oath of...
President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem with Carlos Carcia and his wife at the Presidential Palace in Manila.
Failed Coup In Saigon Against President Ngo Dinh Diem. Saigon- 17 novembre 1960- Lors du coup d'état manqué contre le président NGO DINH DIEM, des...
Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnamese: Ngo Dinh Diem was the first President of South Vietnam . In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result...
Man holds up a portrait of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of the Republic of Vietnam, in a religious iconography store in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam...
Saigon. President Ngo Dinh Diem of free Vietnam and General Paul Ely, French High Commissioner, enter the Pagoda Hung-Long, Cholon to attend Buddhist...
Crowds fill the streets of Saigon to await the return of a referendum held in 1955. The majority of Saigon voters favored President Ngo Dinh Diem who...
Presidents Syngman Rhee and Ngo Dinh Diem pictured together during a two day state visit by Syngman Rhee to the Republic of Vietnam in 1958.
Lampoon Absentee ruler. Saigon: South Vietnamese natives stop to examine an anti-Baq Dai cartoon, which stresses the free -spending, playboy aspects...
Leading a group of followers, Thich Tam Chau, chairman of the Buddhist Secular Affairs Department in Saigon enters a press conference smiling. Ever...
Buddhist monks on the verge of rebellion are adding to the mounting troubles of the South Vietnam government. Already locked in a fight for survival...
Vietnamese Rejoice as Country Becomes a Republic. Saigon, South Vietnam: Saigon town hall is bedecked after the declaration of the polls with a huge...
Rebel General Ba Cut, above, the last big holdout against U.S.-backed Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, is questioned by South Vietnamese High Rank officers...
South Vietnam's most powerful Buddhist leader, Thich Tri Quang arose out of three years of obscurity 3/31 to demand the ouster of President Thieu....
Saigon, South Vietnam: United States Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge presents credentials to South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem at Presidential...
Kennedy's Meet Mrs. Nhu. Belgrade, Yugoslavia: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and his wife, Joan , chat with Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu after attending a luncheon...
Buddhist monk speaks to crowd gathered at Xa Loi Pagoda here August 18th for memorial services to Buddhists who committed ritual suicide by fore to...
Buddhist monk speaks to crowd gathered at Xa Loi Pagoda here August 18th for memorial services to Buddhists who committed ritual suicide by fore to...
Buddhist monks hold signs protesting religious policies of President Ngo Dinh Diem August 18, in memorial services at main Xa Loi Pagoda here....
President Kennedy in a television interview with CBS newsman Walter Cronkite at the summer White House. The president said the war against Communism...
The pro-western regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem has won a solid victory in the first National Assembly election in the young Republic of South...
The new President of South Vietnam, General Duong Van Minh addresses some 180 invited guests at the palace after accepting the presidency from Tran...
South Vietnamese police hustle Buddhist monk into waiting police truck during demonstration here July 17th. The incident occured in front of the Giac...
And Vietnam Minister. Washington: Nguyyan Dinh Thuan, Chief Cabinet Minister to President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, confers with President...
Felled by Rebel Fire. Saigon, South Vietnam: A Vietnamese Nationalist soldier lies dead across an armored vehicle after being felled by fire from...
King of Thailand Visits Vietnam. Saigon, South Vietnam: King Phumiphol Aduldej of Thailand, left, talking with President Ngo Dinh Diem of Vietnam at...
Against Reds and Rebels. Saigon: Vietnamese troops get training in American Military know-how as they prepare to defend Saigon and the rest of the...
Republic Is Born. Saigon, South Vietnam: From Saigon's Independence Palace, President Ngo Dinh Diem reads the proclamation of the Republic in Vietnam...
Saigon, Indochina: Religious Sect Gets Flag From Caodaist Pope. A Special envoy from the Pope of the Caodaist. A religious movement with its own army...
Cao Dai Chief in Address. Saigon, South Vietnam: Gen. Nguyen Thanh Phuong, commander in chief of the Cao Dai religious sect, makes an address as Cao...
General Maxwell Taylor, special military advisor for President Kennedy meets with South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon on October 23, 1961.
Demonstrators in Saigon, many of them members of Dinh Ngo Nhu's Republic Youth Organization, wave banners at a pro-Diem rally on September 10, 1963.
As a protest against the Ngo Dinh Diem government's anti-Buddhist policies, a young Buddhist monk performs a ritual suicide, by self immolation, in...
