Senin, 10 Juli 2017

Assassination, Coup and Madame Nhu

Just three weeks before his own assassination, President John F. Kennedy laid the responsibility for the murder of South Vietnam’s president at the feet of the notorious “Dragon Lady”. At the height of her notoriety, the New York Times named the glamorous 39-year-old wife of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem’s brother and chief counselor …

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