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I ... he also has segment was taken in June ... nineteen eighteen oh injuring the crackdown on pro democracy students in Tiananmen Square ... it was sent to the Associated Press photographer Joe White The ... and is widely considered to be one of the most iconic photos of the twentieth century ... still what the recently arrived in Hong Kong the twenty fifth anniversary of the event ... he spoke to was about the lesson of the images he took during his time covering the protests ... was he expects from attending the annual vigil in Hong Kong ... you know I thought about it very carefully before coming out here ... but it does seem like the right thing to do twenty five years later a lot of times journalists that the very ... now ... unbiased eye and a half to the ... neutral ... but are also human ... and so for me this was a very personal events ... and it was a part of my life and I'm very curious to see ... a day the ... the follow through on this event that happened twenty five years and I really wanna see ... how the reaction is going to be from the ... the citizens ... I ... just the photographs here represents ... pretty much my entire coverage of Tiananmen Square ... the occupied Tiananmen Square ... was very well organized in a ring of security ... once was being provided to it ... and that it was very well organized ... but ... later on that star game very tense and ... to break up the tension ... some of the students ... had performers ... some of the ... folks were saying in ... young children were dancing ... this please mom and ... was singing along with the crowd and I a I do believe there was a lot of ... sympathetic support from the soldiers and the the ... the police that night is bland now ... I came very close to dying ... and I was running low on battery power ... but it save my life because as I was waiting ... while all this activity was going on ... the minute that a lot of the orange of white when I'm I'm proud to camera to my face ... thus when a rock at me ... and the camera absorbed the blow ... and for chewing gum stayed intact ... on the same day that I shot the photograph that a man this truckload of soldiers came by and ... they would randomly go down the streets in the side street issue the people you never knew when ... there are going ... start fire ... I don't have this picture my wall at my house ... because I just a share for every time I look at it thinking how close I came to losing the photo because the automatic camera was adjusting for the proper shutter speed ... but we share the no eight hundred millimeter ... at thirty to the second ... that's an impossible ... shot he was a miracle has been the key now ... a miracle ...