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Library Tapes Reveal President Kennedy Accepted Blame in Slaying of Vietnamese AllyThe John F. Kennedy Library in Boston released its largest batch of recordings to date November 24, making public 37 hours of tapes in which President Kennedy admits his administration was in part responsible for the assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. On the tapes, Kennedy acknowledges that one of the reason's for Diem's death was a cable sent from Washington to South Vietnam in August 1963 that appeared to give approval to a coup against him. He states that the cable was badly drafted and improperly vetted. The assassination led to an escalation of the war in Vietnam. The tapes were held privately by Kennedy's personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, until her death in 1995. The library received the tapes in March of 1997 from Robert White, a private collector who had been given the tapes by Lincoln. Posted November 30, 1998. |
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