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While others were discussing housing tourists to the Kennedy Library, its director, Daniel H. Fenn Jr. '46, was denying claims that researchers for the Library had covered up the alleged role of the late President John F. Kennedy '40 in the 1963 murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Vinh Diem...
Hunt did find, however, three or four authentic cables suggesting that "they [the White House] had pretty close to pulled the trigger against Premier Diem's head, but didn't say so in so many words...
Arrayed against the NLF in its early days was the corrupt administrative apparatus of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime, whose power was increasingly based on terror. The NLF-planned assassinations of government bureaucrats in the countryside were intended to remove the repressive Saigonese presence from rural areas so land and other reforms could be implemented...
This revolutionary formula brought potent results. Saigon withdrew at the first upsurge in NLF militancy, and wide tracts of rural South Vietnam began to implement massive reforms under liberation force leadership. Diem and his handful of allies, trapped in the cities, began to totter...
With the overthrow of the Diem regime in 1963 and the ensuing series of coups and counter-coups over the following two years, the NLF continued to increase its power--to the point where by early 1965 most of rural South Vietnam was under liberation force control. The NLF expected to control the country and press for reunification with the North in a matter of months...