#malcom browne

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Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a street in Saigon, June 1963

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The burning monk, 1963

Malcolm Browne, Associated Press

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Malcolm Browne -  The Self-Immolation, Saigon, South Vietnam, June 11, 1963

David Halberstam, a reporter for the New York Times covering the war in Vietnam, gave the following account:

"I was to that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring.  In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human being burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think... As he burned he never moved a muscle never uttered a sound, his outward composure sharp contrast to the wailing people around him."

Thich Quang Duc had prepared himself for his self-immolation through several weeks of meditation and had explained his motivation in letters to members of his Buddhist community as well as to the government of South Vietnam in the weeks prior to his self-immolation. 

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Malcom W. Browne - Protest (1963)

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