COLLAPSE OF FRENCH AT DIEN BIEN PHU & VIETNAM CONFLICT NEWSREEL 26752

Dating from the time of the Kennedy Administration, this newsreel shows American military advisors working in Indochina to prop up the South Vietnamese Army, and portrays the South as a freedom-loving country deserving of support. It also shows Ngo Dinh Diem, a staunch anti-Communist, who became president in 1955. He later imprisoned and murdered hundreds of Buddhists, causing the U.S. to remove its support. He was assassinated, along with his brother, Ngô Đình Nhu by Nguyễn Văn Nhung, the aide of ARVN General Dương Văn Minh on 2 November 1963, during a coup d'état that deposed his government.
The newsreel starts with a short history of the region, beginning with the French struggle to control its colonies in Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos following WWII. Despite financial assistance from the United States, nationalist uprisings against French colonial rule began to take their toll. On May 7, 1954, the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the French pulled out of the region. Concerned about regional instability, the United States became increasingly committed to countering communist nationalists in Indochina. The United States would not pull out of Vietnam for another twenty years.
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[@jeep146]

When we look at the history of Vietnam we have to look at all of it. If the communist had not taken over large parts of Europe and Korea the war with America would of been avoided. Even President Kennedy had said in 1963 to his close friends once he won his reelection he was pulling out of Vietnam. That meant by early 1965 most US troops would of been gone. His death meant thousands on both sides would die in a war that should not have happened.

[@DungNguyen-jf4in]

This is just a propaganda film
I'm a real Vietnamses, and I'm sure that our life under Communist Party's lead is perfect. Peace, economy is developing faster and faster through days, and enough freedom

[@tuanz8009]

True

[@huu-banvu6904]

Again and again, another boring and stupidizing propaganda clip! Oh, my....

[@kylegoodreau2170]

thats kind of funny that there telling us its ngo dinh diem when there actually showing bao dai

[@envyling2461]

More funny that this is all propaganda & nothing more.

[@johndavis8669]

@@envyling2461 No it wasn't.

[@theric66]

so many lies that would'nt work today