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Wails for Buddhist Monks: Wailing woman, one of a crowd of 1,000 followers, holds her hands in prayer outside the Buddhist National Institute in Saigon, South Vietnam, June 18th, 1966, as several monks leave the pagoda in an effort to be arrested or jailed in protest against the military government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky
Wails for Buddhist Monks: Wailing woman, one of a crowd of 1,000 followers, holds her hands in prayer outside the Buddhist National Institute in Saigon, South Vietnam, June 18th, 1966, as several monks leave the pagoda in an effort to be arrested or jailed in protest against the military government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky
Wails for Buddhist Monks: Wailing woman, one of a crowd of 1,000 followers, holds her hands in prayer outside the Buddhist National Institute in Saigon, South Vietnam, June 18th, 1966, as several monks leave the pagoda in an effort to be arrested or jailed in protest against the military government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky

Wails for Buddhist Monks: Wailing woman, one of a crowd of 1,000 followers, holds her hands in prayer outside the Buddhist National Institute in Saigon, South Vietnam, June 18th, 1966, as several monks leave the pagoda in an effort to be arrested or jailed in protest against the military government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky

Maker (German, 1933 - 2012)
Date6/18/1966
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions8(?) x 6(?) inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
Collections
Object number2024.288
Status
Not on view
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