Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area, Vietnam || Chí Hòa Prison

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

LaPorte composed himself in the position of the Buddhist monks of Vietnam, doused himself with gasoline and set himself aflame. LaPorte died the next day at Bellevue Hospital from second- and third-degree burns covering 95 percent of his body. Despite his burns LaPorte remained conscious and able to speak. When asked why he had burned himself LaPorte calmly replied, "I'm a Catholic Worker. I'm against war, all wars. I did this as a religious action...all the hatred of the world." At the hospital, Catholic Workers sang 'This Little Light of Mine'.
(9 November 1965)

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Chí Hòa Prison

Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area, Vietnam.

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Monday 19th of October 1964 (-) — Việt Cộng National Liberation Front patriot Nguyễn Văn Trỗi is executed by the firing squad.
Văn Trỗi tried to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and future ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964. Văn Trỗi's last words were "I have committed no sin. It is the Americans who have sinned."