1965: Antiwar protestor sets himself afire
1967: Captain Lance Sijan shot down over North Vietnam
1970: Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War
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November 9, 1965
In the second such antiwar incident within a week, Roger Allen LaPorte, a 22-year-old member of the Catholic Worker movement, immolates himself in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York. Before dying the next day, LaPorte declared, "I'm against wars, all wars. I did this as a religious act." LaPorte's act of protest followed that of Norman Morrison, a 32-year-old Quaker from Baltimore, who immolated himself in front of the Pentagon on November 2.
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