HIST2475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Walter Cronkite, Ngô Đình Nhu
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Buddhists assembled to celebrate the birthday of buddha. The end to the diem regime began with a religious controversy which. Buddhists were angered because recently before that catholics in vietnam were encouraged to show their faith. Did the kennedy administration have to do with diem"s assassination? swelled into political upheaval hue incident. A diem officer told them they couldn"t fly buddhist flags in south. Buddhists protest outside a radio station and the protest is eventually dispersed with gunfire. It was believed that the viet cong started this protest. Diem is informed that south vietnam will lose american support if they continue oppressing buddhists. Diem starts an organization to investigate buddhist concerns. Jfk sends henry cabot lodge jr. to south vietnam as a new ambassador: june. Jfk pulls ambassador nolting out of saigon in august. Several attempts to make diem tolerate the buddhists but diem won"t. Buddhist monk commits self-immolation in order to protest for.
