Picture taken 06 October 1968 in Saigon of South V
SAIGON, VIET NAM: Picture taken 06 October 1968 in Saigon of South Vietnamese General Duong Van MInh. Van MInh, the last president of South Vietnam who surrendered his country to North Vietnam in 1975, has died 06 August 2001 at a Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Ca, USA. For many years before his downfall, General Duong Van was the symbol of power of in South Vietnam's political and military circles. He was among several military officers who, with US backing, overthrew the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. He returned to the political arena in 1968, serving as an opposition leader against President Nguyen Van Thieu. Minh returned as president very briefly in 1975 in an unsuccessful conciliation effort but was placed in detention after the Northern army took over. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP via Getty Images)
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