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**Rndouglas** · 06-05-2009, 04:15 PM

Beijing citizens flee from gunfire as tanks approach on Changan Avenue from Tiananmen Square, China, on June 5, 1989.
Between two trees in the background stands the man in the white shirt who stopped the column of tanks in what became
the defining image of the student-led democracy protests.
(Courtesy Terril Yue Jones)

A newly published photo of the incident from street level shows the heroic man facing toward the tanks while others flee -- a pedestrian in a pedestrian environment asserting his dignity -- demanding accommodation.

Terril Jones (AP illustration)

06-05-2009, 04:15 PM	#8
Rndouglas Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 387 Senior Member	Beijing citizens flee from gunfire as tanks approach on Changan Avenue from Tiananmen Square, China, on June 5, 1989. Between two trees in the background stands the man in the white shirt who stopped the column of tanks in what became the defining image of the student-led democracy protests. (Courtesy Terril Yue Jones) A newly published photo of the incident from street level shows the heroic man facing toward the tanks while others flee -- a pedestrian in a pedestrian environment asserting his dignity -- demanding accommodation. Terril Jones (AP illustration)
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