Questions for Film Vietnamizing
the War 1968-1973 from the PBS series Vietnam: A Television History
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (b. 1930): strongly anti-Communist, French-trained South Vietnamese military leader, who participated in Nguyễn Văn Thiệu’s coup with in 1965. Kỳ served as premier (1965–67) and vice president (1967–71) before leaving politics in 1971. Kỳ fled Saigon in 1975 and settled in Southern California. Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923-2001) led a successful coup in 1965. In 1967 Thiệu took the position of president with US support. Thiệu fled Vietnam in 1975, shortly before the PAVN entered Saigon. He died in Boston, MA. Bůi Diễm: Former newspaper publisher, who was a political opponent of President Diem, and later served as the RVN’s ambassador to the United States (1966-72). Provincial Revolutionary Government (PRG): political wing of the NLF in South Vietnam, which was formed in June 1969. |
William Colby (1920-1996): intelligence officer, who began in the OSS in 1943 and served as director of the Phoenix Program from 1968 to 1971, during which time as many as 60,000 Vietnamese were targeted and killed. He was the director of the CIA from 1973 to 1975. Colby would later defend his role in the Phoenix Program, while questioning other activities of the CIA. Hoŕng
Đức Nhă:
personal secretary
to the President Nguyễn
Văn Thiệu and top RVN adviser in the negotiations leading
to the Paris Accords of January 1973. William Rogers (1913-2001): US Secretary of State (1969-1973), who
participated in the 1973 Paris Accords negotiations. Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984): US Ambassador to RVN (1967-1973), who was a strong supporter of President Nguyễn
Văn Thiệu’s goivernment. |