# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-morrison
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:48:10.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-morrison"
name: "Norman Morrison"
slug: "norman-morrison"
description: "Norman R. Morrison was an American anti-war activist. On November 2, 1965, Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War, leading to his death. This action was inspired by photographs of Vietnamese children burned by napalm bombings, and may have been inspired by Thích Quảng Đức and other Buddhist monks, who burned themselves to death to protest the repression committed by the South Vietnam government of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem."
tagline: "American Vietnam War self-immolator (1933-1965)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Norman_MorrisonVietnamNationalMuseumofHistory.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1933-12-29"
deathDate: "1965-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1468788249694002
  historical:           11.549328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Norman Morrison"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump