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Malcolm Browne | 1931-2012

Malcolm Browne's June 11, 1963, photo of a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire in Saigon to protest the Diem regime.

Malcolm Browne’s June 11, 1963, photo of a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire in Saigon to protest the Diem regime.   (Malcom Brown / Associated Press)

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Malcome Browne, the Associated Press photographer who took the famous photo of an elderly monk who set himself ablaze to protest South Vietnam’s U.S.-supported government in 1963, has died. He was 81. See obituary

Malcolm Browne | 2012

Former AP correspondent Malcolm Browne, left, and his former New York Times colleague Seymour Topping attend a tribute to late AP Vietnam War journalists George Esper and Horst Faas in New York on Aug. 11, 2012. Topping opened the AP bureau in Saigon in 1950; Browne won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his AP reporting from Vietnam.   (Mike Feldman / Associated Press)

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