Article about a military coup

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363-05702 to 363-05706

Title

Article about a military coup

Description

Original title: "coup", Keever's title: "Rebel Troops and Armored Cars Jar Saigon's Sunday Churchgoers during 'Little Coup,'" Article for the New York Herald Tribune about a South Vietnamese troops moving from the Mekong Delta to Saigon to take part in a military coup

Transcript

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URGENY
t/a
press
tribune newyork
prowald coup one filing brief topper to incoming wires
on coup which probably too late for sunday & stoppaza
Summon
saigon dash rebel troops and armored cars patrolled
through streetsve saigon early smorning as sunday churchgoers
and marketing women a buzzed through two to town stoppara
the unknown numberve rebel troops including ranger units
from warweary mekong delta area moved into outskirtsve
saigon about on sunday morning under orders from
nin
am leading
generals whom prime minister majgen nguyen khanh dismissed from
mots ajoutes: their jobs because buddhist and student protests
mots rayes:
beverly/ /deepe
Cat 44
moredcepe
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URGENT
t/a
PRESS
TRIBUNE NEWYORK
PROWALD
VIETNAMESE
TWO
AYE TEXTANGER CAPTAIN
IN TIGER SPOT SUIT TOLD
THIS CORRESPONDENT THAT HE HAD BEEN ORDERED BY FOURTH CORPS
HOM TO COME TO SAIGON BECAUSE MAJGEN
COMMANDER
NGUYEN KHANH WAS SCHEDULED TO RELEASE FIVE GENERALS
ACCUSEDVE BEING PRONEUTRALIST STOP KHANH HAD OVERTHROWN
THESE FIVE GENERALS WX DURING HIS JANUARY THIRTY COUP STOPPARA
CAPTAIN ALSO SAID HE DID NOTRPINOT KNOW WHETHER THE COUP
WAS FOR OR AGAINST
☑
AMERICAN BACKED PRIME MINISTER KHANH
MOREDEEPE
MOTS AJOUTES:
HOTS-RAYES: J
Spupe
BEVERLY DEEPE CARTE NO. 44
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URGENT
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PRESS
TRIBUNE NEWYORK
coup
upon tip from friend this corraspe correspondent
raced through saigons hectic sunday morning traffic to
phu lam repeat phu lam checkpoint comma aye suburban area
area coma leading south towards
ricerice mekong delta stop two armed car armored cars arned with
bristling fifty calibre machineguns
skirted the area stop
SD ALERT
white uniformed police at the traffic checkpoint bristled with
cocked rifles and carbines stop lounging against bridge and sleeping
under trees were coupla squadsve fatigue clad and heavily
armed troopers moredeepe
mots ajoutes:
mots raves:
beverly deepe carte 44
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URGENT
TIA
PRESS
TRIBUNE NEWYORK
PROWALD COUP FOUR
DRIVING FEVERISHLY BEHIND THREE
meeting guANED
CARS
TRUCKLOADSVE TROOPS AND AN ARMORED SCORRESPONDENT YELLED
AT AXE VIETNAMESE RANGER CAPTAIN LEADING THE MILITARY PROCESSION STOP
HE REPLIED QUOTE WE ARE NOTRPINOT GOING TO SHOOT ANYONE STOP
ARE JUST GOING TO OPPRESS THEM STOPUNQUOTE PARA
WE
EARLIER AT THE SAIGON CHECKPOINT SUBURBAN CHECKPOINT CAPTAIN
DESCRIBED REBEL MOVEMENT AS
QUOTE LITTLE COUP UNQUOTE
WHICH HE SAID WAS REACTION TO RELEASEVE FIVE ALLEGED
PRONEUTRALIST GENERALS STOPPARA
ASKED AT HOW MANY TROOPS CAME INTO SAIGON HE REPLIED
QUOTE EYE CAN NOTRPTNOT TELL YOU STOP EYELL GO TO JAIL AYE
LONG TIME FOR TELLING YOU ALL THIS STOPUNQUOTE PARA MOREDEEPE
MOTS AJOUTES: 2 MOTS RAYES:
beverly deepe carte 44
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URGENT
T/a
press
tribune newyork
provald
coupo
5 saigon
saigon reacted normally to the movementve troops
who entered the city without resistance or firing stop saigon
has seen tuo previous coups in less than aye year stoppara
uppick wiros
eyell file ha
han heavily
on interpretive tonight if postoffice still operating multi thanks
deepe
mots ajoutes: /
mots reyes: 3
Bout
boverly deepe carte 44

Date

1964, Aug. 2

Subject

Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam (Republic); Military government; Coups d'état; Vietnam (Republic). Quân lực

Location

Saigon, South Vietnam

Coordinates

10.8231; 106.6311

Size

20 x 26 cm

Container

B187, F2

Format

dispatches

Collection Number

MS 363

Collection Title

Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers

Creator

Keever, Beverly Deepe

Collector

Keever, Beverly Deepe

Copyright Information

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Publisher

Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Language

English