Pacifist Protests In Flames
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A young pacifist protesting American involvement in Viet Nam put himself to the torch Tuesday, perishing in flames beneath the Pentagon office window of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara.
Throngs of homeward bound Defense Department workers were streaming from the building's main entrance when Norman R. Morrison, 31, of Baltimore, his infant daughter in his arms, calmly ignited his kerosene-soaked clothing.
AN ARMY colonel, an Air Force sergeant and several other persons attempted to beat out the flames. But it was too late for Morrison. The infant, one-year-old Emily Morrison, was unharmed.
"He was a mass of flames—a human torch," said one witness. "When I looked around, the flames were leaping about two feet above his head."
Morrison was dead on arrival at an Army hospital at Ft. Myer, Va, a few blocks away from the Pentagon. A coroner said he suffered second and third degree burns over 70 per cent of his body.
SEVERAL HOURS after Morrison's self-immolation his wife Ann issued a statement to newsmen through a family friend.
She said her husband, who was executive secretary of a Friends Quaker meeting house, or church, in Baltimore, gave his life "to express his concern over the great loss of life and human suffering caused by the war in Viet Nam.
"He was protesting our government's deep military involvement in this war. He felt that all citizens must speak their true convictions about their government's actions."
McNamara—the principal target of the drastic protest—was in his office at the time Morrison met his fiery death. But a Pentagon spokesman said the defense secretary neither saw nor was aware of the incident.
MORRISON HAD been dissuaded from burning himself in the same manner last year. Twice last spring, in April and May, he picketed the Pentagon with groups demonstrating against U.S. Viet Nam policy.
John Paisley of Baltimore, who said he knew the onetime divinity student and father of three children well, told United Press International: "We had to talk him out of burning himself up last year. He wanted to do it when the monks in Saigon were killing themselves that way."
Daily Kansan
Wednesday, November 3, 1965
MONEY DRIVE—Tom Moore, executive secretary of KU-Y, and Charles Corcoran, Pct., USMCR, Naval Air Station at Olathe, are organizing a Civic Action Fund for Viet Nam. Money raised during the drive will be used to send medicine, food, clothing and other necessities to the people of Viet Nam.
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Marine Fund Drive Gets Support from City, KU-Y
The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve's Civic Action Program for Viet Nam received unanimous support yesterday in resolutions adopted by the Lawrence City Commission, the KU-7 and Angel Flight, the AFROTC's women's honorary.
In the city's proclamation, Lawrence citizens were urged by Mayor Ernest Pulliam "to actively support" the Marine Reserve's drive for funds. The drive will be conducted as a house-to-house canvass by KU student volunteers between November 10 and 13.
THE KU-Y'S statement "resolved that the KU-Y help to sponsor and support the KU Civic Action Committee which supports the Civic Action Fund for Viet Nam, and that we encourage all KU students to donate their time and effort to the cause."
Members of Angel Flight approved a resolution to act as official hostesses for the kick-off of the drive Nov. 10. The women will staff a distribution point on
campus for campaign material from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and help volunteers with the city canvass
Both the KU-Y and Angel Flight members agreed to promote collections for the drive in their living groups.
THE KU CIVIC Action Committee's organizational meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union, Tom Moore, the committee's faculty adviser, said.
All student living groups and many professional and honorary organizations have been requested to join the committee's campaign to raise funds for CARE to aid Vietnamese civilians. All interested students and faculty members are invited to attend the meeting. Moore said.
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