A Bates professor has received a $40,000 grant to complete his research into a Vietnamese monk whose self-immolation in 1963 was one of the defining acts of the Vietnam War years. On June 11, 1963, at ...

On June 11, 1963, Vietnamese monk Thích Quang Duc set himself on fire on a busy road in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). Quang Duc’s self-immolation was an act of protest against the persecution of ...

Photographer Malcolm Browne took the above, unforgettable picture on June 11, 1963 when a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire and burned to death in complete, immobile silence as a ...

Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc is doused with gasoline during a protest demonstration in Saigon, on June 11, 1963. Credit - Malcolm Browne—AP A U.S. airman died after setting himself on fire in front ...

Four events coinciding on June 11, 1963 make it one of the most historically unique days in the 1960s. POLITICO reviews the worldwide events that occurred on this day 50 years ago. The flaming body of ...

Vietnam has marked the 40th anniversary of the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc, the monk whose fiery protest came to symbolise the repression of the United States-backed South Vietnamese regime ...

(CNN) — When the Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc immolated himself in Saigon in 1963 to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem, the world took notice.