Sy Dang died on November 11, 2006, aged 77, at his home in Maryland. U.S. news headlines 1963-66 Letters to The Times; Diem Regime Assailed Religious Favoritism, Intolerance and Persecution Charged. New York Times - August 2, 1963 Start Trial For Murder. Gettysburg Times - June 2, 1964 Vietnamese Major Enters Innocent Plea. Eugene Register-Guard - June 2, 1964 Saigon Trying Officer As Slayer of Buddhists. New York Times - June 3, 1964 Major Asked to Blame Bishop. Chicago Tribune - June 3, 1964 Viet Officer Gets Life For Killing Buddhists. Hartford Courant - June 7, 1964 Religious-political Furor In Viet Nam Sparks Noisy March. Gadsden Times - June 8, 1964 VIETNAM OFFICER DRAWS LIFE TERM; Convicted of Killing Eight. New York Times - June 7, 1964 Protest Against Military Rule, 100,000 marched. Keesing's World News - December 1, 1964 State Woman Fights for Major's Freedom. Owosso Argus-Press - March 1966 See also Persecution of Buddhists References External links Lodge in Vietnam: A Patriot Abroad by Anne E. Blair; Yale University Press (1995) "The Impossible Prayer", The Baltimore Sun (1987) 1929 births 2006 deaths Vietnamese emigrants to the United States Vietnamese Roman Catholics South Vietnamese military personnel of the Vietnam War People from Huế