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06 Nov, 2013
PW: I’m looking at the picture now on my screen. Tell me what I’m not seeing —what are you hearing, smelling?
MB: The overwhelming smell of joss sticks. They do make a very strong smell, not a particularly nice smell, but it’s meant to appease the ancestors and all of that. That was the overwhelming smell except for the smell of burning gasoline and diesel and the smell of burning flesh, I must say. The main sound was the wailing and misery of the monks, who had known this guy for many years before and were feeling for him. Then there was shouting over loudspeakers between the fire department people, trying to figure out a way to put him out, put out the flames around him without actually killing him or something. So it was a jumble of confusion.
President Kennedy: “No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one.”
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