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Talk Of Air Raid Before Suicide

(N Z. Press Association—Copyright)

BALTIMORE, Nor. 4

A pacifist who burned himself to death in front of the Pentagon on Tuesday had talked with his wife earlier about an account of a bombing in a Vietnam village. Norman Morrison, aged 31, luncheon conversation was a

did not tell his wife that he intended to set fire to himself, according to a fellow Quaker. I The subject of the couple’s

Paris newspaper article of a Catholic priest’s account of a bombing raid in Vietnam. The priest said the Viet Cong had left the village with only women, children and old people remaining. “I have seen my faithful burned up in napalm,” the priest was quoted as saying. “I have seen all my villages razed. By God, its not possible . . . they must settle their accounts with God." Mrs Morrison left her husband at home with their one-year-old daughter, Emily, in mid-afternoon to go pick up their two other children at school. When she returned at about 4 p.m. the house was empty.

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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30900, 5 November 1965, Page 17

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Talk Of Air Raid Before Suicide Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30900, 5 November 1965, Page 17

Talk Of Air Raid Before Suicide Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30900, 5 November 1965, Page 17

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