And he never sent a combat troop abroad to die, an American combat troop. My father ran again. In fact, 30 days before he died, my uncle signed National Security Order 263, ordering all the military advisors he had sent, reluctantly, 16,000 military advisors who weren't allowed to participate in combat. They did, but under the rules of his rules of engagement, they weren't permitted to. He learned on the morning of October 22, 1963, that 76Americans had died in Vietnam. (31:50–32:04)
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Asserts that John F. Kennedy signed an order to withdraw military advisors from Vietnam.
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