Thích Quảng Đức
Browne's career in journalism began when he was drafted during the Korean War. He was assigned to the Pacific edition of the "Stars and Stripes", where he worked for two years. He worked for the Middletown "Times Herald-Record", then joined the Associated Press (AP). He worked in Baltimore from 1959 until 1961, at which point he was made chief correspondent for Indochina. On June 11, 1963, he took his famous photographs of the death of Thích Quảng Đức , a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy road intersection in Saigon, in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and received many job offers, eventually leaving the AP in 1965.