Vietnam war reporter Malcolm Browne dies (BBC)

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A journalist who captured an iconic image of a burning South Vietnamese monk in 1963 has died at the age of 81.

Associated Press (AP) correspondent Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Vietnam in 1964.

But his photograph of Thich Quang Duc, an elderly monk who set himself on fire in Saigon, became one of the first defining images of the escalating conflict.

Browne died near his Vermont home after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.

After spending decades as a globe-trotting reporter, covering conflicts for the New York Times for some 30 years after leaving AP, Browne spent his final years struggling to move around and using a wheelchair.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19401031
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[Cleita]

1. I remember him. Courageous man and good reporter.

RIP

[leveymg]

2. I rather imagine he was like the Tom Fowler character in The Quiet American

Quietly filing dispatches for decades as the world went mad around him.