Before “Tank Man,” pro-democracy demonstrators had been occupying Tiananmen Square for weeks. From the hotel balcony, Widener watched as the man confronted the lead tank, standing directly in front of it. Martsen, the student who helped Widener get into the Beijing Hotel, put the “Tank Man” film in his underwear and smuggled it out of the hotel. A Chinese tank crashes through a barricade of burned buses in front of the Beijing Hotel on June 6, 1989. Several media outlets took a photo of “Tank Man,” but Widener’s shot was the most used.

Source: CNN June 01, 2019 01:07 UTC