Lê Văn Kim
South Vietnamese Army general and leader in the 1963 military coup / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Lê, but is often simplified to Le in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Kim.
Lieutenant General Lê Văn Kim (1918 – 28 March 1987)[1] was a general of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He was the brother-in-law of General Trần Văn Đôn and together with General Dương Văn Minh, the trio organised the 1963 South Vietnamese coup which toppled President Ngô Đình Diệm and ended in the assassinations of Diệm and his brother, Ngô Đình Nhu.[2]