This Day in History: 1963-06-10

Gruesome protest –  AP reporter Malcolm Browne takes photos of the suicide of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức on this day in 1963.  The monk had doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam, then under US occupation. Then-president John F. Kennedy said at the time that “no news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one.”