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release name: Death.of.a.Generation.How.the.Assassinations.of.Diem.and.JFK.Prolonged.the.Vietnam.War.eBook-EEn

release date: 07.03.07 ?size: 5.56 MB

author: Howard Jones

title: Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem

and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War

ISBN: 0195176057 ?FORMAT: PDF ?category/genre: History

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When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were

left to wonder how America, and the world, would

have been different had he lived to fulfill the

enormous promise of his presidency. For many

historians and political observers, what Kennedy

would and would not have done in Vietnam has

been a source of enduring controversy. Now,

based on convincing new evidence--including a

startling revelation about the Kennedy

administration's involvement in the assassination

of Premier Diem--Howard Jones argues that Kennedy

intended to withdraw the great bulk of American

soldiers and pursue a diplomatic solution to the

crisis in Vietnam. Drawing upon recently

declassified hearings by the Church Committee on

the U.S. role in assassinations, newly released

tapes of Kennedy White House discussions, and

interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert

McNamara, Dean Rusk, and others from the

president's inner circle, Jones shows that

Kennedy firmly believed that the outcome of the

war depended on the South Vietnamese. In the

spring of 1962, he instructed Secretary of

Defense McNamara to draft a withdrawal plan

aimed at having all special military forces

home by the end of 1965. The "Comprehensive

Plan for South Vietnam" was ready for approval

in early May 1963, but then the Buddhist revolt

erupted and postponed the program. Convinced that

the war was not winnable under Diem's leadership,

President Kennedy made his most critical mistake--

promoting a coup as a means for facilitating a U.S.

withdrawal. In the cruelest of ironies, the coup

resulted in Diem's death followed by a state of

turmoil in Vietnam that further obstructed

disengagement. Still, these events only confirmed

Kennedy's view about South Vietnam's inability to

win the war and therefore did not lessen his

resolve to reduce the U.S. commitment. By the end

of November, however, the president was dead and

Lyndon Johnson began his campaign of escalation.

Jones argues forcefully that if Kennedy had not

been assassinated, his withdrawal plan would have

spared the lives of 58,000 Americans and countless

Vietnamese. Written with vivid immediacy, supported

with authoritative research, Death of a Generation

answers one of the most profoundly important

questions left hanging in the aftermath of John F.

Kennedy's death.

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