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 ...

Saigon 1963. On the day of a Monk protest, around 400 Buddhist monks and nuns marched to the intersection carrying banners protesting about the Government oppression of their faith and culture ...

“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 ...

Introduction Australians in Vietnam Quotes Checklist From the first moment of Australian involvement in 1962 until the present, the Vietnam War has been represented in a myriad of different ways. This ...

Prisoners incarcerated here during the Vietnam War nicknamed it the Hanoi Hilton — an ironic reference to the appalling living conditions inside. At its peak, 3,600 captives were squeezed into a ...