12/30 Have you heard of the VIETNAM WITHDRAWAL PLAN before JFKs - TopicsExpress



          

12/30 Have you heard of the VIETNAM WITHDRAWAL PLAN before JFKs assassination in 1963 ? Click on Proceedings of 8th SecDef Conference on Vietnam, a 216-page government report declassified in 1997. The 8th Secretary of Defense Conference on Vietnam was conducted in Honolulu on May 6, 1963. They show that by May of 1963 there were plans on the books for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, and that under Kennedys orders McNamara had instructed the military to revise those plans to speed up the withdrawal timetable. An initial 1000 man pullout (of the approximately 17,000 stationed in Vietnam at that time) was initiated in October 1963. The longer-range plans called for complete withdrawal of U. S. forces and a Vietnamization of the war, scheduled to happen largely after the 1964 elections. history-matters/vietnam1963.htm
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:02:32 +0000

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