# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-mendenhall
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:28:35.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-mendenhall"
name: "Joseph Mendenhall"
slug: "joseph-mendenhall"
description: "Joseph Abraham Mendenhall was a United States State Department official, known for his advisory work during the Kennedy administration on policy towards Vietnam and Laos. He was best known for his participation in the Krulak Mendenhall mission to South Vietnam in 1963 with General Victor Krulak. Their vastly divergent conclusions led U.S. President John F. Kennedy to ask if they had visited the same country. Mendenhall continued his work in the Indochina region after Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency in wake of Kennedy's assassination."
tagline: "American diplomat"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-01-15"
deathDate: "2013-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.03
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           5.469042666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mendenhall"
    title: "Joseph Mendenhall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "چوزيف مندنهال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_A._Mendenhall"
    title: "Joseph A. Mendenhall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%90._%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Джозеф А. Менденхолл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%AB_%E0%A8%8F._%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%B9%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B2"
    title: "ਜੋਸਫ ਏ. ਮੈਂਡੇਨਹਾਲ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Менденхолл, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6285507"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump