Video: 'PRESIDENT KENNEDY DICTATES NOTES REGARDING VIETNAM (NOVEMBER 4, 1963)'
(Monday, November 4, 1963, evening; during the 1963 South Vietnamese coup, part of the Vietnam War, the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy reflected upon the tumultuous events that had transpired in Saigon over the previous weekend, the overthrow and murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Ding Nhu.
(Wednesday, November 4, 1953; during the First Indochina War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon made a front-line tour south of the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam today, saying he was impressed by the high morale of all the French Union troops and “the fact this is a rugged, rough war.”
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (late 1973 at 15:17)
(Sunday, November 4, 1973; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The heaviest fighting since the January 1973 signing of the Vietnam cease-fire broke out in pre-dawn darkness today as North Vietnamese troops and tanks backed by artillery and at least 20 tanks attacked a former U.S. Green Beret outpost 115 miles northeast of Saigon, military spokesman said.
