According to Wikipedia, Thiệu fled to Taiwan, later he settled in Surrey, Great Britain. Finally he took up residence in Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States, where he died in 2001. Spartacus (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNthieu.htm) says that he lived in Taiwan, England and the United States, where he died in Boston on 29 September 2001.
Periodically, he wrote articles for Time Magazine, in which he spoke of his hope of being allowed to return to Vietnam - a hope never realized.
ANSWER Ho Chi Minh was the president of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War his original name was Nguyen Tat. Diem was the president of South Vietnam. Diem was assassinated Nguyen Van Thien was the president of South Vietnam after him.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
South Vietnam's president in 1957 was Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem.
Ford was President when South Vietnam fell to the communists (North Vietnam).
In 1955 Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam.
ANSWER Ho Chi Minh was the president of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War his original name was Nguyen Tat. Diem was the president of South Vietnam. Diem was assassinated Nguyen Van Thien was the president of South Vietnam after him.
Diem & Thieu
Diem, later Thieu.
First Diem, later Thieu
He died in Massachusetts in 2001.
Nguyen Van Thieu
Thieu was president, until North Vietnam conquered his country (South Vietnam).
The latest president, at the time of South Vietnam's fall was President Nguyen Van Thieu.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
No Vietnamese prime minister was assasinated, but South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem was killed by Vietcong during a raid from north to south during the Vietnam War.
There was NO South Vietnam in the 1940's.
Nixon.