Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Anthis, Brigadier General Roland H.,USAF, Commander U.S. Second Air Division; Chief, U.S. Air Force Advisory Group, Vietnam
  • Bagley, Lieutenant Commander Worth H., USN, Naval Aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State
  • Barnett, Robert W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Economic Affairs from February 3, 1963
  • Bell, David E., Administrator of the Agency for International Development and member of the Counterinsurgency Group
  • Bowles, Chester A., President’s Special Representative; Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs; and Ambassador at Large until July 19, 1963; thereafter Ambassador to India
  • Brent, Joseph L., Director, Operations Mission in Vietnam
  • Browne, Malcolm, Associated Press correspondent
  • Bui Van Lueng, Vietnamese Minister of the Interior
  • Bundy, McGeorge, President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
  • Bundy, William P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Buu Hoi, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
  • Carroll, Lieutenant General Joseph F.,USAF, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
  • Carter, Lieutenant General Marshall S., USA, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Clifton, Major General Chester V., USA, President’s Military Aide
  • Colby, William, Director of the Far East Division, Operations Directorate, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Conlon, Thomas F., Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs Department of State, after September 1, 1963, and member of the Vietnam Working Group
  • Cooper, Chester L., Assistant for Policy Support to the Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, until November 1963; thereafter Assistant Deputy Director for Policy Support
  • Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister
  • De Gaulle, Charles, President of France
  • Denney, George C., Deputy Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from April 28, 1963
  • Diem, see Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Dingeman, Major James W., USA, Executive Secretary of the Special Group for Counterinsurgency
  • Dinh, see Ton That Dinh
  • Don, see Tran Van Don
  • Dungan, Ralph A., President’s Special Assistant
  • Duong Van (“Big”) Minh, Major General, 1963, Lieutenant General), ARVN, Military Adviser to President Diem until November 1, 1963; thereafter Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Council; President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Vietnam after November 4, 1963
  • Dutton, Frederick G., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Affairs
  • Felt, Admiral Harry D., USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific
  • Forrestal, Michael V., member, National Security Council Staff
  • Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense and member of the Special Group for Counterinsurgency
  • Halberstam, David, New York Times correspondent in Vietnam
  • Harkins, General Paul D., USA, Commander, U S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Harriman, W. Averell, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until April 3, 1963; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Chairman of the Special Group for Counterinsurgency
  • Heavner, Theodore J., Deputy Director of the Vietnam Working Group, Department of State, until August 4, 1963
  • Heinz, Rear Admiral Luther C., USN, Regional Director for the Far East, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Helble, John J., Consul in Hue
  • Hieu, see Ngo Trong Hieu
  • Higgins, Marguerite, New York Herald Tribune correspondent
  • Hilsman, Roger, Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research until April 25, 1963; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; also Chairman and General Secretary of Dang Lao Dong, Workers’ Party of Vietnam
  • Hoang Van Lac, Colonel,ARVN, Permanent Commissioner, Interministerial Committee for Strategic Hamlets; Special Commissioner for Strategic Hamlet Program
  • Hughes, Thomas L., Deputy Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research until April 28, 1963; thereafter Director
  • Huynh Van Cao, Brigadier General,ARVN, IV Corps Commander
  • Janow, Seymour J., Assistant Administrator for the Far East, Agency for International Development
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Jorden, William, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Kalischer, Peter, CBS News correspondent
  • Kattenburg, Paul M., Deputy Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, and Chairman of the Vietnam Interdepartmental Working Group from August 4, 1963
  • Kaysen, Carl, President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs
  • Kennedy, John F., President of the United States until November 22, 1963
  • Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney General
  • Kent, Colonel J. R., USA, Assistant Director, Far East Region, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Khanh, see Nguyen Khanh
  • Khiem, see Tran Thien Khiem
  • Khiet, see Tien Khiet
  • Kim, see Le Van Kim
  • Koren, Henry L. T., Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs. Department of State
  • Krulak, Major General Victor H.,USMC, Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Ky, see Nguyen Cao Ky
  • La, see Nguyen Van La
  • Lac, see Hoang Van Lac
  • Lansdale, Major General Edward G.,USAF, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
  • Le Quang Tung, Colonel,ARVN, Special Forces Commander until November 1, 1963
  • Le Van Kim, Brigadier General, (after November 1, 1963, Major General), ARVN, Secretary General and Foreign Affairs member, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council, after November 1, 1963
  • Lodge, Heriry Cabot, Jr., Ambassador to South Vietnam from August 26, 1963
  • Luong, see Bui Van Luong
  • Mai Huu Xuan, Brigadier General, (after November 1, 1963, Major General), ARVN, Commander, Quang training camp; member, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council, after November 1, 1963; Chief of National Police
  • Manfull, Melvin L., Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in Vietnam
  • Manning, Robert J., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
  • Mansfield, Mike, Democratic Senator from Montana; Majority Leader and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Mau, see Vu Van Mau
  • McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence
  • McGarr, Lieutenant General Lionel C7 USA, Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam
  • McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense
  • Mecklin, John, Counselor for Public Affairs at the Embassy in Vietnam
  • Minh, see Duong Van Minh
  • Montgomery, James M., Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, and member of the Vietnam Working Group
  • Murrow, Edward R., Director, United States Information Agency
  • Ngo Dinh Can, brother of President Diem
  • Ngo Dinh Diem, President of the Republic of Vietnam until November 1, 1963
  • Ngo Dinh Luyen, brother of President Diem; Vietnamese Ambassador to the United Kingdom until November 2, 1963
  • Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Diem; Presidential Counselor and Head of the Interministerial Committee for Strategic Hamlets until November 1, 1963
  • Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame (Tran Le Xuan), wife of Ngo Dinh Nhu and member of the Vietnamese National Assembly; official hostess for President Diem
  • Ngo Dinh Thuc, brother of President Diem; Archbishop of Hue
  • Ngo Trong Hieu, Vietnamese Minister of Civic Action until November 1, 1963
  • Nguyen Cao Ky, Lieutenant Colonel, Vietnamese Air Force, Transport Squadron Commander; Air Force Commander from December 17, 1963
  • Nguyen Dinh Thuan, Vietnamese Secretary of State at the Presidency and Assistant Secretary of State for National Defense
  • Nguyen Khanh, Major General,ARVN, Commander of II Corps until November 29, 1963; thereafter Commander of IV Corps
  • Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese Vice President until November 4, 1963; thereafter Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and National Economy of the Provisional Government
  • Nguyen Van La, Major General,ARVN, Civil Guard Commander
  • Nguyen Van Thien, Colonel, (Brigadier General after November 1, 1963), ARVN, Commanding Officer of the 5th Infantry Division
  • Nhu, see Ngo Dinh Nhu
  • Nhu, Madame, see Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame
  • Nitze, Paul H., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Nolting, Frederick E., Jr., Ambassador to Vietnam until August 15, 1963
  • Pell, Clalborne H., Democratic Senator from Rhode Island
  • Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Phan Huy Quat, former Vietnamese Defense Minister under Bao Dai and leader of Dai Viet Party
  • Phillips, Rufus C., Assistant Director for Rural Affairs, Operations Mission in Vietnam
  • Quang Duc, bonze who committed suicide on June 11, 1963
  • Rice, Edward E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Rostow, Walt W., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
  • Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State
  • Salinger, Pierre, President’s Press Secretary
  • Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., President’s Special Assistant
  • Sheehan, Neil, United Press International correspondent in Vietnam
  • Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, Cambodian Chief of State
  • Smith, Benjamin A., former Senator from Massachusetts
  • Smith, Bromley, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Souvanna Phouma, Laotian Prime Minister
  • Stoneman, Walter G., Director of the Office of Vietnam Affairs, Bureau for the Far East/Vietnam, Agency for International Development
  • Sullivan, William H., U.N. Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, until April 28, 1963; thereafter Assistant to the Under Secretary of State
  • Sully, Francois, Newsweek correspondent
  • Sylvester, Arthur, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
  • Tam Chau, bonze, member of Buddhist delegation from Hue; became Chairman of the Intersect Committee for the Defense of Buddhism
  • Taylor, General Maxwell D., USA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Thien Minh, bonze, leader of the Buddhist delegation from Hue
  • Tho, see Nguyen Ngoc Tho
  • Thompson, Brigadier Robert G. K., head of the British Advisory Mission in Vietnam
  • Thuan, see Nguyen Dinh Thuan
  • Thuc, see Ngo Dinh Thuc
  • Tien Khiet, chief bonze in Hue
  • Ton That Dinh, Major General,ARVN, Military Governor of Saigon, August 21-November 1, 1963; thereafter Commander of III Corps, Second Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council, and Minister of Public Security of the Provisional Government
  • Tran Kim Tuyen, head of the Service des Etudes Politiques et Sociales
  • Tran Le Quang, Vietnamese Minister of Rural Affairs until November 4, 1963; thereafter Minister of Rural Affairs of the Provisional Government
  • Tran Le Xuan, see Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame
  • Tran Thien Khiem, General,ARVN, Chief of Staff after November 1, 1963; Military Affairs member, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council
  • Tran Tu Oai, Brigadier General,ARVN, Director of Psychological Warfare, Vietnamese Ministry of Defense; Chief of Public Information; Minister of Information in the Provisional Government after November 4, 1963
  • Tran Van Chuong, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States until August 22, 1963
  • Tran Van Don, Major General,ARVN, Commander of III Corps until July 1963; thereafter Commander of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; Acting Chief of the Joint General Staff after August 1963; First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council after November 1, 1963; Minister of National Defense after November 4, 1963
  • Tri Quang, bonze, Buddhist opposition leader
  • Trueheart, William C., Minister-Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission in Vietnam
  • Tung, see Le Quang Tung
  • Tuyen, see Tran Kim Tuyen
  • Unna, Warren, Washington Post correspondent
  • Vo Van Hai, Director of President Diem’s Personal Cabinet until November l, 1963
  • Vu Van Mau, Vietnamese Foreign Minister until August 22, 1963; Ambassador to the United Kingdom after December 24, 1963
  • Weede, Major General Richard G.,USMC, Chief of Staff, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Wheeler, General Earle General, USA, Chief of Staff
  • Wood, Chalmers B., Director of the Vietnam Working Group, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, until August 4, 1963