A Sober Act of Courage:  Remembering Jan Palach

A Sober Act of Courage: Remembering Jan Palach

Student photo of Jan Palach Mid-afternoon, 16th January 1969, passers-by near the National Museum at the top of Prague’s principal boulevard see flames shoot up near the museum fountain. A human being is afire. He runs a short way down the boulevard and collapses. A...