Table of Contents
56 relations: Airstrike, Alice Herz, Anti-war movement, Arlington County, Virginia, Baltimore, Boy Scouts of America, Buddhist crisis, Chautauqua County, New York, Chautauqua, New York, College of Wooster, Da Nang, Detroit, Erie, Pennsylvania, Errol Morris, Far from Vietnam, Fort Myer, Hanoi, List of political self-immolations, Lyndon B. Johnson, Michigan, Napalm, New York (state), New York City, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nguyễn Minh Triết, Nhất Chi Mai, North Vietnam, Pacifism, Path to War, Peace movement, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Potomac River, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, President of the United States, President of Vietnam, Quakers, Religious emblems programs (Boy Scouts of America), Robert McNamara, Roger Allen LaPorte, Scotland, Self-immolation, Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell, Self-immolation of George Winne Jr., South Vietnam, Tố Hữu, Thích Quảng Đức, The Fog of War, The Pentagon, United Nations, ... Expand index (6 more) »
- 1965 suicides
- Self-immolations in protest of the Vietnam War
- Suicides by self-immolation in the United States
- Suicides in Virginia
Airstrike
An airstrike, air strike, or air raid is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft.
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Alice Herz
Alice Jeanette Herz (née Strauß, alternatively rendered Strauss; May 25, 1882 – March 26, 1965) was a German feminist, anti-fascist and peace activist. Norman Morrison and Alice Herz are 1965 suicides, 20th-century Quakers, American Quakers, American anti–Vietnam War activists, American pacifists, self-immolations in protest of the Vietnam War and Suicides by self-immolation in the United States.
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Anti-war movement
An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict.
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Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.
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Boy Scouts of America
tag and place it alphabetically by ref name.
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Buddhist crisis
The Buddhist crisis (Biến cố Phật giáo) was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign of civil resistance, led mainly by Buddhist monks.
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Chautauqua County, New York
Chautauqua County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of New York.
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Chautauqua, New York
Chautauqua is a town and lake resort community in Chautauqua County, New York.
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College of Wooster
The College of Wooster is a private liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio.
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Da Nang
Da Nang or DanangSee also Danang Dragons (Đà Nẵng,, Hán Nôm: 陀㶞) is the fourth-largest city in Vietnam by municipal population.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Erie, Pennsylvania
Erie is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Errol Morris
Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron.
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Far from Vietnam
Far from Vietnam (Loin du Vietnam) is a 1967 French documentary film directed by Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais.
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Fort Myer
Fort Myer is the previous name used for a U.S. Army post next to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Founded during the American Civil War as Fort Cass and Fort Whipple, the post merged in 2005 with the neighboring Marine Corps installation, Henderson Hall, and is today named Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall.
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Hanoi
Hanoi (Hà Nội) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.
List of political self-immolations
This is a list of notable people who committed self-immolation, the act of setting themselves on fire for political reasons.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.
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Napalm
Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical (usually gasoline or diesel fuel).
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New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngô Đình Diệm (or;; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 South Vietnamese coup.
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Nguyễn Minh Triết
Nguyễn Minh Triết (born 8 October 1942) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the seventh President of Vietnam from 2006 to 2011.
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Nhất Chi Mai
Nhất Chi Mai (February 20, 1934 – May 16, 1967), born Phan Thị Mai and legally named Thích nữ Diệu Huỳnh, was a Buddhist nun who killed herself in an act of self-immolation in Saigon on May 16, 1967, in protest at the Vietnam War. Norman Morrison and Nhất Chi Mai are self-immolations in protest of the Vietnam War.
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North Vietnam
North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa; chữ Nôm: 越南民主共和), was a socialist state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1945 to 1976, with formal sovereignty being fully recognized in 1954.
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Pacifism
Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.
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Path to War
Path to War is a 2002 American biographical television film, produced by HBO and directed by John Frankenheimer.
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Peace movement
A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Potomac River
The Potomac River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
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Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) was a Presbyterian denomination existing from 1789 to 1958.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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President of Vietnam
The president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (lit) or simplier the state president is the head of state of Vietnam, elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam from its delegates.
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Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.
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Religious emblems programs (Boy Scouts of America)
A variety of religious emblems programs are used by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to encourage youth to learn about their faith and to recognize adults who provide significant service to youth in a religious environment.
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Robert McNamara
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.
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Roger Allen LaPorte
Roger Allen LaPorte (July 16, 1943 – November 10, 1965) was a protester of the Vietnam War who set himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in New York City on November 9, 1965, to protest the United States involvement in the war. Norman Morrison and Roger Allen LaPorte are 1965 suicides, American anti–Vietnam War activists, self-immolations in protest of the Vietnam War and Suicides by self-immolation in the United States.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Self-immolation
Self-immolation is the act of setting oneself on fire.
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Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell
On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately before the act, which was live-streamed on Twitch, Bushnell said that he was protesting against "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers" and declared that he "will no longer be complicit in genocide", after which he doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire. Norman Morrison and Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell are Suicides by self-immolation in the United States.
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Self-immolation of George Winne Jr.
George Winne Jr. (April 2, 1947 – May 11, 1970) was an American student who, in protest of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, set himself on fire in an act of self-immolation at Revelle Plaza on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. Norman Morrison and self-immolation of George Winne Jr. are American anti–Vietnam War activists, self-immolations in protest of the Vietnam War and Suicides by self-immolation in the United States.
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South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam.
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Tố Hữu
Tố Hữu (4 October 1920 – 9 December 2002) was a Vietnamese revolutionary poet and politician.
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Thích Quảng Đức
Thích Quảng Đức (德,; born Lâm Văn Túc; 1897 – 11 June 1963) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963.
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The Fog of War
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, illustrating his observations of the nature of modern warfare.
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The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Secretary of Defense
The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet.
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University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh (University o Edinburgh, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Vigil
A vigil, from the Latin vigilia meaning 'wakefulness' (Greek: pannychis, παννυχίς or agrypnia ἀγρυπνία), is a period of purposeful sleeplessness, an occasion for devotional watching, or an observance.
William Klein (photographer)
William Klein (April 19, 1926 – September 10, 2022) was an American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography.
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See also
1965 suicides
- Ñāṇavīra Thera
- Alberto Greco
- Alice Herz
- Antanas Kraujelis
- Arabella Árbenz
- Boris Barnet
- Dan Burros
- Dan Pippin
- Edgar Mittelholzer
- Erich Apel
- Ethel du Pont
- Everett Sloane
- Frank Wisner
- Freddie Mills
- Frederick Fleet
- Gunji Koizumi
- Hannah Gavron
- Howell Van Gerbig
- Ingrid Jonker
- Lai Hang
- Lisa Howard (news personality)
- Lucien Sebag
- Marie McDonald
- Max Haufler
- Nat Nakasa
- Norman Morrison
- Petras Polekauskas
- R. C. Robertson-Glasgow
- Rajalakshmi
- Randall Jarrell
- Roger Allen LaPorte
- Roger Girerd
- Shirley Barker
- Stan Pitula
- Thorn Lord
- Vittorio Jano
- Wilhelm Mach
- William Frame (cricketer)
- Yukon Eric
Self-immolations in protest of the Vietnam War
- Alice Herz
- Nhất Chi Mai
- Norman Morrison
- Roger Allen LaPorte
- Self-immolation of George Winne Jr.
Suicides by self-immolation in the United States
- Alice Herz
- Charles R. Moore (minister)
- David Buckel
- Death of Elizabeth Shin
- F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
- Kathy Change
- Norman Morrison
- Roger Allen LaPorte
- Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell
- Self-immolation of George Winne Jr.
- Self-immolation of Wynn Bruce
Suicides in Virginia
- American Airlines Flight 77
- Gary W. Johnston
- Henry Berg-Brousseau
- James Bradby
- Kenneth Kronberg
- Larry Wu-tai Chin
- Lorna Breen
- Majed Moqed
- Norman Morrison
- Suicide of Joyce Meyer Sommers
- Tom Gear
- Virginia Tech shooting
- William Byrd III
References
Also known as Norman R. Morrison.