Crushed to Death
Photograph
Associated Press
American
Unidentified
Maker
Crushed to Death
June 1989
Gelatin silver print
15.7 x 23.7 cm.
Gift of The Associated Press
1990.0466.0014
Inscriptions verso-(caption label) "89. Anonymous, Biejing (sic), China, June 4,
1989 Crushed to Death-Students died with their collapsed bicycles
near Tiananmen Square early Sunday morning. Thousands of PLA troops
and tanks stormed the square at a predawn raid and hundreds of people
were killed and injured as the army forcefully ended students week-
long sit in in the square to press the government for political
reforms."
(in ink) "89"
1989 Crushed to Death-Students died with their collapsed bicycles
near Tiananmen Square early Sunday morning. Thousands of PLA troops
and tanks stormed the square at a predawn raid and hundreds of people
were killed and injured as the army forcefully ended students week-
long sit in in the square to press the government for political
reforms."
(in ink) "89"
