Assassination Attempt on Diệm

Date: February 22, 1957 • Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.

Ngô Đình Diệm was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and later the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 coup d'état.