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The Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname given to an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks leaving Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989.
A man blocks a line of tanks on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. At first, Jeff Widener was annoyed by the man entering his shot. Widener, a photographer with the Associated...
The image of one man standing in the way of a column of tanks, a day after hundreds possibly thousands of people died, has become a defining image of the 1989 pro-democracy protests.
After Chinese officials—alarmed at the June 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square —ordered soldiers and police to shoot and kill student protesters, one solitary man...
CNN —. The shot is iconic: an unidentified man in a white shirt, hands full of bags, facing off against a column of tanks on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace, after the Chinese Communist ...
Who was the Tiananmen Square Tank Man and how is he being remembered? As many as 10,000 student pro-democracy activists killed by People's Liberation Army on horrific day of bloodshed long...
Charlie Cole, one of the photographers who captured the famous Tank Man on film during the Tiananmen Square protests, has died. The image of one man standing in the way of a column of tanks, a...
On June 4, 1989, Chinese troops opened fire on civilians in Beijing's Tiananmen Square — part of a bloody government crackdown on dissent that killed unknown numbers of unarmed pro-democracy ...
American photojournalist Charlie Cole, whose career will forever be associated with the iconic photograph of the "Tank Man", the Chinese office worker facing down a column of tanks during the...
American photographer Charlie Cole, whose picture of the famous “Tank Man” during the Tiananmen Square protests became a defining image of the 1989 pro-democracy protests, has died aged 64.