General Joseph Arthur Ankrah ‘s Letter to the American President.
A Letter from the Military Ruler, Lt. General Joseph Arthur Ankrah to the American President, Lyndon Baines Johnson on March 24th, 1966, a month after the overthrow of President Kwame Nkrumah to Justify the Coup of 1966.
Lt. General Joseph Arthur Ankrah, the Ghanaian military Head of State meeting President Lyndon Baines Johnson of the United States in the Oval Office of the White House on October 10th, 1967.
Ankrah had previously written a letter to Johnson in March 1966, a month after the overthrow of President Kwame Nkrumah. Accra, March 24, 1966.
My dear President Johnson, I am taking this opportunity to write to you personally in order to explain the circumstances that led to the recent change of government in Ghana and to discuss some of the most crucial problems ...