- Americans evacuating from a Saigon rooftop by helicopter while
desperate Vietnamese try to climb aboard.
Quang Duc, the first Buddhist monk to set himself on fire to protest the policies
of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime that the United States supported in South
Vietnam, shocked the South Vietnamese and the American people. Before the
war ended, several other Vietnamese and at least one American followed
Quang Duc’s example.
The list also included two generic images: B-52s with bombs streaming below
them into the pockmarked countryside of Vietnam, and a ruined city such as
Hué, nothing but rubble in view, as American and South Vietnamese troops
move in to retake it after the Tet offensive.^7