JFK's Memoir Dictation on the Assassination of Diem

In this recording, made on the evening of Monday, November 4, 1963, less than three weeks before he himself would eventually be assassinated, Kennedy reflected upon the tumultuous events that had transpired in Saigon over the previous weekend, the overthrow and murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Ding Nhu.

While Kennedy was recording, his young children, John John (aged 3) and Caroline (aged 6), joined their father for a few moments.

Date: 
Nov 04, 1963
Participants: 
John Kennedy, John Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy