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On June 5, 1989, a petrifying procession of Type 59 tanks with bright red personalities emblazoned on the attributes rolled down the eerily vacant streets of Chang'an Avenue, going towards Tiananmen Square. Photographer Jeff Widener, combined with the disorderly rabble of the advertising, public, and protesters, observed with bated breath, some from the sidelines, plus some from the home windows of properties and nearby organizations. Suddenly, the hype of panic converted into a chorus of disbelieving gasps. A man by his lonesome, dressed in a white natural cotton blouse and a set of dark slacks, casually strolled into the street, two shopping totes swinging in hand. Some were bewildered by the thought of the person foolishly wanting to cross the street at the most detrimental possible time, but when this man deliberately stopped in the road of the tanks, there was a combat of stunned silence. The person, perhaps unaware of the a large number of eyes fixated on him, coolly stared down the tanks as their treads slowly and gradually grinded to a halt, individually.
