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About Oral History
Digital Identifier
JFKOH-LCH-02
Interviewee(s)
Heinz, Luther C. (Luther Carl), 1912-1987
Biographical Note
(1912 - 1987) Admiral, U.S. Navy; Regional Director for the Far East, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense (1960-1963); commander, cruiser-destroyer flotilla 12 (1964); staff, CINCPAC (1965).
Interviewer(s)
William W. Moss
Access Restriction Status
Open
Use Restriction Status
None
Description
In this interview Heinz discusses his primary contacts in other government agencies; the Vietnam task force; the different political trips and survey missions to Vietnam; the Maxwell D. Taylor-Walt W. Rostow mission to Vietnam and subsequent report; the Ngo Dinh Diem regime; the rise in interest in the concept of counterinsurgency; problems with working in Vietnam; changing the terrain in Vietnam with the use of defoliants; the Strategic Hamlet program; how to measure success in warfare; the International Control Commission; General Paul D. Harkins; the various agency reports coming out of Vietnam and interagency meetings; the Buddhist crisis in the summer of 1963; the appointment of Henry Cabot Lodge as Ambassador; and the military coup in Saigon and the rumors leading up to it, among other issues.
Date(s) of Materials
27 July 1970
Deed Status
Deeded
Copyright Status
Donated to the United States
Collection
Series
Series 1. John F. Kennedy Oral History Interviews, 1964-2012.
Preferred Citation
Luther C. Heinz, recorded interview by William W. Moss, July 27, 1970, (page number), John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
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Use Restriction Note
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Accession Number
OH 1977-006
Transcript
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