Mid 1963: Buddhists stage a campaign of civil disobedience against the Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem. On the morning of June 11, an elderly Buddhist monk sits in the middle of a busy intersection and sets himself on fire. Malcolm Browne's photograph of the suicide appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world, and marked the beginning of the end of American support for the Diem regime. Malcolm W. Browne, on the Buddhist protests