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- Title
- Saigon crisis: Buddhist monks in protest.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-29766 SAIGON CRISIS: BUDDHIST MONKS IN PROTEST SAIGON, South Vietnam -- The policies of the Diem government are assailed by Buddhist monks before a huge crowd attending memorial services outside the Xa Loi Pagoda in Saigon. Services were held for a monk who had burned himself to death as a sign of protest against alleged religious persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnam regime headed by President Ngo Dinh Diem. Rioting, police raids on pagoda followed demonstrations in main centers. The U.S. Sate Department charged that the Diem government had violated assurances that it would pressure a policy of reconciliation with the Buddhists. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-8D-63-W)
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1963, August 18, 1963, August 18, 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Quảng Đức, Thích--Death and burial.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights movements--Vietnam (Republic), Demonstrations--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Freedom of religion--Vietnam (Republic), Buddhist priests--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Memorial service., Civil rights movements--Vietnam (Republic)
- Geographic subjects
- Vietnam (Republic), Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City., Vietnam (Republic), Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City., Vietnam (Republic), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Vietnam (Republic), Asia--Viet Nam--Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh--Saigon
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29766; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-29766
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:358117
- Title
- Monks protest government.
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (author)
- Date Created
- 1963, August 21, 1963, August 21, 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Quảng Đức, Thích--Death and burial.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights movements--Vietnam (Republic), Demonstrations--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Freedom of religion--Vietnam (Republic), Buddhist priests--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Memorial service., Civil rights movements--Vietnam (Republic)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29766; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-29766_02
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:357763
- Title
- Monk burns self to death.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: #29884 MONK BURNS SELF TO DEATH An aged Buddhist monk, the Rev. Quang Duc, burns to death before spectators at Saigon, Vietnam, June 11, 1963, to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by President Ngo Dinh Diem’s government. As other monks lay in front of nearby fire trucks to prevent their moving, the monk set fire to his gasoline-soaked robes and sat while flames engulfed him. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-9-16-63-S)
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1963, June 11, 1963, June 11, 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Quảng Đức, Thích., Quảng Đức, Thích--Death and burial.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Self-immolation--Religious aspects--Buddhism., Self-immolation--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Suicide--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Demonstrations--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Freedom of religion--Vietnam (Republic), Buddhist priests--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Civil rights movements--Vietnam (Republic)
- Geographic subjects
- Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City., Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City., Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City., Vietnam (Republic), Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City., Vietnam (Republic), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Vietnam (Republic), Asia--Viet Nam--Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh--Saigon
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. 29884; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_29884
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:358022
- Title
- Monk burns self to death.
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
- Date Created
- 1963, circa June 11, 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Quảng Đức, Thích., Quảng Đức, Thích--Death and burial.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Self-immolation--Religious aspects--Buddhism., Self-immolation--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Suicide--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Demonstrations--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Freedom of religion--Vietnam (Republic), Buddhist priests--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City., Civil rights movements--Vietnam (Republic)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. 29884; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_29884_02
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:358008