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 ...

ANSONIA — The photograph of Thich Quang Duc, the 66-year-old monk who burned himself to death on a busy Saigon street in 1963 is as powerful a protest against religious persecution today as it was ...

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 ...

In 1963, the monk Thich Quang Duc soaked himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire to protest the government of the Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem. Within a few years, dozens more had killed ...