During the week of October 14th, 1963, two great Catholic, political dynasties, made their way to Harvard Yard. One family on a PR tour with its eldest daughter in tow, looking forward to a great future. The other, on a visit to his old alma mater, before going to mourn his youngest son. In just over 30 days, both dynasties would be brought to a violent end...
The story of the beginnings of the Vietnamese Empire, French Indochina, and the rise to prominence of two great Catholic, political dynasties on either side of the Pacific...the families from which Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ngo Dinh Diem would emerge.