Chí Hòa Prison
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Chí Hòa Prison is a prison located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The prison is an octagonal building on a 7-hectare site consisting of detention rooms, jail cells, prison walls, watchtowers, facilitie
The prison in 2016
Ngô Đình Cẩn
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Ngô Đình Cẩn was the younger brother and confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and an important member of the Diệm government. Diệm put Cẩn in charge of central Vietnam, stretch
Chí Hòa Prison
…always one battalion of police guarding the prison. In spite of being only a prison, two executions were carried out in Chí Hòa prison: the execution of Ngô Đình Cẩn and the execution of Nguyễn Văn Trỗi. After the fall of Saigon, the prison was kept running by the new Socialist Republic of Vietnam government but…
In his youth, Cẩn was a follower of famed anti-French nationalist Phan Bội Châu (pictured).
Remnants of Ngo Dinh Can's villa in Ngu Tay, Thuy An, Hue city.
Ngô Đình Nhu (right), shaking hands with US Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson