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Tienanmen Square Meme (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Jeff Widener, the photographer, who was able to leave the country without being searched or having his world famous photograph or his camera or anything else really confiscated by the evil see pee pee.

I remember reading Wikipedia and he said he hid the film in a box of tea or something because the Chinese were “never gonna allow him to leave with that footage”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

My history teacher taught me that he hid it in the tank of a public toilet to retrieve later

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Doesn't make much sense when you realized the associated press also took film reel of the event (this was before digital video was standard) and also left the country with it