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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.
Charlie Cole (February 28, 1955 – September 5, 2019) [1] [2] [3] was an American photojournalist, one of the five photographers who captured the iconic image of the Tank Man during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. [4] Cole was born in 1955 in Bonham, Texas, United States.
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 1989 ...
Fang Zheng (born October 14, 1966) is a former student protester who was seriously injured during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. [1] During the evacuation of the Square in the early morning of June 4, Fang was run over by a People’s Liberation Army tank, which led to the amputation
The Tiananmen Square massacre is a highly sensitive subject in China and Hong Kong where references to it are strictly censored. “Tank Man” was an unknown person pictured standing in front of ...
Jeff Widener's iconic "Tank Man" photo on June 5, 1989, showing an unidentified man standing in front of a column of tanks after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, China. - Jeff Widener/AP
A mural of the legendary "Tank Man" in Cologne, Germany. Although the fate of Tank Man following the demonstration is not known, paramount Chinese leader Jiang Zemin stated in 1990 that he did not think the man was killed. [207] Time later named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
June 4, 2021 was the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests in Hong Kong. Naturally, more people than usual would look up pictures from the 1989 protests on that day. And, of course ...