Before the Gulf of Tonkin incident was used as an excuse to incite major U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War, the United States was already deploying thousands of troops to Vietnam – and a recently recovered audio recording reveals that the deployments were occurring against the wishes of the president in office.
Former President John F. Kennedy was planning for a full withdrawal from Vietnam during his last months in office. His exit strategy is featured on the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary series on Vietnam, in an episode that looks at U. S. involvement in Vietnam from when Kennedy took office in January 1961, to when he was assassinated in November 1963.
The episode includes an audio recording from Nov. 4, 1963, in which Kennedy shares his reaction to the military coup d’tat that resulted in the assassination of US-backed, South Vietnam leader Ngo Dinh Diem, and his brother Nhu:
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on SEPTEMBER 26, 2017.
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