Nguyễn Văn Trỗi

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Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (1 February 1940 – 15 October 1964) was a Vietnamese electrician and member of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam who was convicted by the Republic of Vietnam of attempting to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during McNamara's 1964 visit to South Vietnam. South Vietnamese authorities arrested Trỗi after uncovering a plot to bomb the Công Lý Bridge in Saigon, over which McNamara's motorcade was expected to pass. Trỗi was executed by firing squad in Saigon on 15 October 1964. Following his death, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front promoted him as a revolutionary martyr, issuing commemorative stamps, monuments, and propaganda materials bearing his image.

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