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 | | November 2Eighty-two-year old Alice Hertz had set herself alight on March 16 in Detroit; Roger Allen LaPorte, sixty years younger than Hertz, would do the same in New York City on November 9, exactly a week after Morrison's protest. |
 | | November 91965 - Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building. |
 | | A historical footnote - on the day of Laporte's suicide, the Northeast and parts of Eastern Canada were struck later by what has since become known as The Great Blackout of 1965, triggered by problems at a Canadian power station. |
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