Malcolm Browne, whose photos of a monk burning himself sent shudders all the way to the White House, prompting President John F. Kennedy to order a reevaluation of his administration’s Vietnam ...

On this day in 1963, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức self-immolated to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. Next To Trump, Carney Opens G7 Summit ...

Malcolm Browne’s The Burning Monk (1963) depicts the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức, a Buddhist monk, in Saigon. Protesting the persecution of Buddhists under Ngo Dinh Diem’s South Vietnamese ...

Vietnamese monk Thich Minh Tue sits at Wat Udom Pattana temple in Nong Bua, Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand, Feb. 13, 2025. (Pimuk Rakkanam/RFA) Resting after a long day of walking barefoot across the ...

“Vietnam: The Real War” (Abrams; Oct. 1, 2013; 304 pages; 300 photographs; US $40.00/CAN $45.00/UK £25.00) UPDATED: Read The New York Times preview. To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press ...

As the fall of Saigon on April 30 approaches, The Associated Press is recognizing the significance of the Vietnam War with an extraordinary photo exhibit in London. “Vietnam: The Real War, A ...

On Feb. 25, 2024, just before 1 p.m. Eastern time, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force named Aaron Bushnell went live on the video streaming platform Twitch. Dressed in combat ...

One of the first and most well known acts of self-immolation in modern history was conducted by Thich Quang Duc during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese monk set himself on fire in Saigon in 1963 in ...

On a busy Saigon street in June 1963, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức lit himself on fire and set off a chain of events that led to America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Malcolm Browne The ...

Today, the “Burning Monk” photograph is remembered as a symbol of rebellion and resistance — but perhaps it means more than that. Thich Quang Duc’s burning body was more than just a symbol. It was the ...