It seems strange to me that Morrison left a wife and two daughters. He even brought his one-year old daughter along when he burned himself.

I don't doubt that he opposed the war or intended his death to make a statement. I just wonder if he wasn't suicidal anyway.

A few days later, Roger La Porte set himself afire in front of the UN. He lived long enough to say explicitly that his death was a political protest against all war.

Morrison is regarded as a hero of conscience. La Porte seems to have been forgotten. Whether their motives were entirely idealistic or partly acts of emotional desperation will never be known.

Both men were imitating Buddhist monks who had immolated themselves in Saigon.

None of these deaths had any effect on the war itself, which continued to increase in intensity.