The Daily History Chronicle

On June 11, 1963, a sixty-seven-year-old Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc sat in the center of a Saigon intersection and set himself on fire. His photograph was on President Kennedy's desk the next morning and helped topple the South Vietnamese government. But the story most people have never heard is what happened the evening before, and why the image meant to end American involvement in Vietnam may have deepened it instead.