Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F.

So he decided to make a stand in a place few Americans at the time had ever heard of: Vietnam. Narrator: Kennedy believed he had to show strength. And asking Congress to fund an increasing buildup ...

In the fall of 1963 American efforts to build a democratic firewall against Communism in South Vietnam were failing. The country's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, ran the nation like a fiefdom.