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I saw several cases of people dodging bullets to retrieve the wounded and get them to a hospital. But Chinese hospitals didn't have the kind of trauma care system we have in the West, so when I visited a hospital the next day I saw bodies stacked in a hallway.

Silly Imgur verification image here.

I was down on the street getting shot at at the time. I saw those tanks, but I never saw the guy.

My colleague Jeff Widener shot the Tank man photo from the top of the Beijing Hotel. He had got whacked over the head with a rock or something the night before and had a bit of a concussion, so we gave him the longest lens we had and sent him to the hotel because it would provide a good overview of the square, and to keep him out of harms way for a while.

EDIT: Here's a link to a recent Time magazine piece on Jeff and his photo.

For me it was the Orwellian silence after the fact. This cataclysmic event had happened, and people couldn't talk about it. When you live in a totalitarian society, you never know which of your friends and neighbors might rat you out.

Here's a photo of me with my Time magazine cover, will that do?

I don't do Twitter or Facebook; what a waste of time. I'm not a very social person, so social media doesn't work for me. Or, maybe I'm just old.