Thích Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government, June 11, 1963, Photo by Malcolm Browne
Along about springtime (1963), the monks began to hint that they were going to pull off something spectacular by way of protest–and that would most likely be a disembowelment of one of the monks or an immolation. And either way, it was something we had to pay attention to.