Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
Protest and Politics: 1968, Year of the Barricades #5013
Metadata
Date: October 2, 1968
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Photographer: Proceso
Source: AP Photo
Caption
University students, right, in underwear are held at gunpoint by soldiers inside an apartment building in Tlatelolco, Mexico City. A Mexican magazine published photos, including the one shown, showing that paramilitary forces hired to provide security during the 1968 Olympic games apparently participated in a massacre of student protesters, something past Mexican governments have denied.
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