Nguyen Van Troi
Viet Cong volunteer executed during Vietnam War · Vietnam · On the map · Activists · Lived 1940 to 1964 · aged 24
Nguyễn Văn Trỗi 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.
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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.
