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Ho Chi Minh Dies

September 2, 1969

The mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh
The mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh
The mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh

North Vietnam’s president, Ho Chi Minh, dies of a heart attack in Hanoi at the age of 79. Ho was in failing health for some time. By the time of his death he had already ceded control of the country and the war to his successors.1

Spencer C. Tucker, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2nd edition; Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 499–501; Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (2nd revised edition; New York: Penguin, 1997), 612–13.