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Thích Quảng Đức and the True Story Behind the Burning Monk Photo

“No news photograph in history,” John F. Kennedy once said, “has generated as much emotion in the world.” This was no exaggeration. When the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon on June 11, 1963, it tr…