(Joy Sharon Yi, Kate Woodsome/The Washington Post)
Up next in Opinions
3:07
Opinion | 'Tank Man' photographer: 'I will never forget the laughter'
May 31, 2019
17:44
How Cuba’s investment in artists came back to haunt it
July 11, 2022
32:30
Bring Them Home | A short doc from Post Opinions
March 7, 2022
9:26
How 9/11 conspiracy theories fueled the war on reality | Opinion
September 8, 2021
4:23
Opinion | This is why the media should not replay viral videos of black men being killed
June 10, 2020
Opinions
Opinion | 'Tank Man' photographer: 'I will never forget the laughter'
May 31, 2019 | 2:52 PM GMT
Hundreds, if not thousands, of people were killed in June 1989, when Chinese soldiers open fired on unarmed civilians in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Jeff Widener’s iconic ‘Tank Man’ photograph came to symbolize the brutality of the crackdown. Thirty years later, Widener shares new details about his experience covering the massacre.