United States President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" id="mwAQM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> sends 18,000 military advisors to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a>.<sup about="#mwt109" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_18#cite_note-17" id="mwAQU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQY">[17]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt113" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_18#cite_note-18" id="mwAQc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQg">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"><i id="mwB9o">Defending the Free World: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and the Vietnam War, 1961-1965</i> <a about="#mwt106" class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span about="#mwt106" id="mwB90" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a about="#mwt106" href="./Special:BookSources/0-27596-279-2" id="mwB94" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-27596-279-2">0-27596-279-2</a> p. 56</span>