Ms. Que Banh<p>Sentenced to death, Trỗi got a reprieve after the FALN, a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Venezuelan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuelan</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MarxistLeninist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarxistLeninist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/guerrilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guerrilla</span></a> group, kidnapped US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael Smolen in revenge for Trỗi's sentence. The group threatened to kill Smolen if Trỗi was executed. Smolen was eventually released unharmed, and Trỗi was shot by firing squad shortly thereafter in Chí Hòa Prison.</p><p>In the West, Trỗi's arrest went largely unreported. Major news media did not report on Trỗi at all until the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FALN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FALN</span></a> kidnapping episode. His anonymity persisted after his execution, despite the honors bestowed upon him in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EasternBloc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EasternBloc</span></a>. Apart from advocacy by <a href="https://beige.party/tags/revolutionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolutionaries</span></a> like the Weather Underground & a brief mention in Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book (1971) as a "Vietnamese hero", Trỗi is still rarely acknowledged in Western accounts of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnamWar</span></a>.</p><p>Many cities in Vietnam have named major streets after him. In <a href="https://beige.party/tags/H%E1%BB%93Ch%C3%ADMinh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HồChíMinh</span></a> City, the road upon which McNamara traveled ,& where Trỗi planned to assassinate him is named Nguyen Van Troi Boulevard & a memorial park, Bia tưởng niệm Anh Hung Liet Si Nguyễn Văn Trỗi is located near the former Cong Ly Bridge. In <a href="https://beige.party/tags/%C4%90%C3%A0N%E1%BA%B5ng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ĐàNẵng</span></a>, the Nguyễn Văn Trỗi Bridge spans the Hàn River. Other countries have commemorated Trỗi, particularly <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a>. A 14,000-seat public stadium in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Guant%C3%A1namo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guantánamo</span></a> is named Nguyen Van Troi Stadium & his statue overlooks Nguyen Van Troi Park in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Havana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havana</span></a>; the city also has a school & hospital named for him.</p><p>Anti-war activists Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden named their son, an actor now known as Troy Garity, in honor of Trỗi.</p><p>The 1975 film Chronicle of a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LatinAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LatinAmerican</span></a> subversive (Spanish: Crónica de un subversivo latinoamericano) by director Mauricio Walerstein, narrates the kidnapping episode of Colonel Smolen by FALN guerrillas in response to Trỗi's death sentence.</p><p>(Ref: Doling, Tim (2019). Exploring Saigon-Cholon – Vanishing Heritage of Ho Cho Minh City. Thế Giới Publishers. ISBN 9786047761388.)</p><p>(Ref: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100803012635/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4711422/The-heart-doesnt-grow-Fonda.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2010080301</span><span class="invisible">2635/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4711422/The-heart-doesnt-grow-Fonda.html</span></a>)</p><p>(Ref: <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cronica-de-un-subversivo-latinoamericano-chronicle-of-a-latin-american-subversive/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rottentomatoes.com/m/cronica-d</span><span class="invisible">e-un-subversivo-latinoamericano-chronicle-of-a-latin-american-subversive/</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseRevolutionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnameseRevolutionaries</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialResistance</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnameseHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthEastAsia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Viet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viet</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USWarOnVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USWarOnVietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LongLiveVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongLiveVietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnameseSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LearnHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootSEA</span></a></p>