AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Beijing journalists join students as they picket in Tiananmen Square at Beijing, Tuesday, May 16, 1989. University students are in their fourth day of...

Beijing's Tiananmen Square is filled with thousands of student strikers and sympathizers, Tuesday, May 16, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/ Sadayuki Mikami...

A student protester sleeps in the shade of his umbrella in the huge crowd of demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Wednesday, May 16, 1989. (AP...

Striking Beijing University students crowd three to a bag during the chilly night sit in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Monday, May 15, 1989. They are in...

Chinese Security guards block the entrance to the Great Hall of the People from demonstrating Beijing University students, Monday, May 15, 1989 in Bei...

University students push against a police line in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in an attempt to get inside the Great Hall of the people during a banquet...

Student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square sleep leaning on one another at sunrise, Sunday, May 14, 1989 in Beijing. The protesters, some of the...

A security guard turns back a group of Chinese University Students led by Zhang Jun, foreground, during a confrontation at the Soviet embassy, Saturda...

A group of students from Beijing's Minorities Institute proudly display their permit, Friday, May 12, 1989 in Beijing they march past the Beijing Mosq...

A group of about 2,500 students from Beijing's Minorities Institute march in Beijing, Friday, May 12, 1989 to protest a book about the sexual habits o...

A Chinese student waves a red flag and cheers his comrades from the back of a tricycle, Wednesday, May 10, 1989 in front of Xinhua News Agency during...

Student activists lead chants from the back of a tricycle in front of Xinhua News Agency, during a student bicycle protest for freedom of the press in...

North Korean army officer, armed with a modern Japanese camera, suspiciously photographs all the foreign journalists covering the United Nation milita...

An unidentified student leader is surrounded by foreign reporters in front of a government office, Friday, May 8, 1989 in Beijing after he and other t...

A co-ed discussing China's student movement with Beijing University students at campus, May 7, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/ Sadayuki Mikami)

Students of Teachers University raise their hands to appeal to supporting citizens near Tiananmen Square, Thursday, May 4, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/...

A passing bicyclist makes a donation to students during a pro-reform demonstration, Thursday, May 4, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Itsu Inouye)

Protest pamphlets passed out by a student activist are eagerly snatched up by local residents during a student march for political reform, Thursday, M...

Students carry a banner reading,

A red flag waves at the head of the Beijing University group soon after leaving their campus, Thursday, May 4, 1989 in Beijing for a student march for...

Chinese students shout with joy after breaking through a police blockade during a pro-democracy march to Tiananmen Square in Central Beijing, Thursday...

Approximately 7,000 students of Teachers University, including several local universities students march to Tiananmen, Thursday, May 4, 1989 in Beijin...

Approximately 7,000 students of Teachers University, including several local universities students march to Tiananmen, Thursday, May 4, 1989 in Beijin...

Tens of thousand students demonstrators arrived at Tiananmen Square after the 20 kilometer march from their campus, Thursday, May 4, 1989 in Beijing....

Chinese journalist signs a letter, Wednesday, May 3, 1989 to give to the government and the party condemning the dismissal of the editor of the Shangh...

A student at Beijing University yells a derisive comment at a loudspeaker broadcasting the proceedings of a government-student dialogue on Saturday, A...

A student at Beijing University points to a map of the march route on a poster up on campus as he recounts a tale of how marchers pushed through polic...

Chinese police try in vain to convince students from Beijing University not to march as they emerged from their campus on Thursday, April 27, 1989 in...

A Beijing University student marcher holds a red flag aloft as he emerges from campus, April 27, 1989. Students from several Beijing universities par...

Chinese marchers are jubilant as they surround and stop an army truck at Tiananmen Square, April 27, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)

Students demonstrators scuffle with police as they try to break the guard line to march to the Tiananmen Square on Thursday, April 27, 1989 in Beijing...

A student leader speaks during a press conference at the Political Science and Law College on Wednesday, April 26, 1989 in Beijing. Representatives fr...

Two students in the crowd record the answers to questions during a press conference at the Political Science and Law College, April 26, 1989 in Beijin...

Students at the Political Science and Law College look down from a banner bedecked balcony during a student press conference, April 26, 1989 in Beijin...

A student leader speaks during a press conference at the Political Science and Law College, April 26, 1989 in Beijing. Representatives from various B...

Beijing University teacher Zhang Shangming sits in the middle of a group of students on campus answering questions on Wednesday, April 26, 1989 in Bei...

A student gives a speech to passersby on a Beijing street corner in front of a propaganda billboard, April 25, 1989. In the wake of a virtual news bl...

William Summerfield raises his tricorn hat as he passes in front of the Statue of Liberty, after a reenactment of the voyage George Washington made 20...

Chinese students, some 5000 strong, applaude a speaker during a pro-democracy rally at Beijing University, April 24, 1989. The students called for th...

Beijing residents read a copy of a newspaper printed by students and placed on a streetlight pole near the Beijing University campus describing the st...

Students march on the Beijing Normal University campus shouting,

Students at Beijing Normal University stand listening to a student broadcast of a Voice of America news program from loudspeakers set up in a tree by...

Students at Beijing Normal University march on campus on Sunday, April 23, 1989 in Beijing shouting pro-democracy slogans and calling for fellow stude...

Students put up a poster at Beijing University announcing support for a class boycott being organized by student leaders at several universities aroun...

Chinese students link arms in solidarity at dawn on Saturday, April 22, 1989 in Beijing???s Tiananmen Square after spending the night there in order t...

Students from Beijing University of Engineering carry a banner, top, reading 'Democracy, Bathed in Blood,' as they march into Beijing's Tiananmen Squ...

University students hold hands as they sing the Chinese National Anthem during a protest, April 21, 1989 in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. (AP Photo/Mark...

Students from Beijing University march in the rain around Tiananmen Square on Thursday, April 21, 1989 in Beijing. The students later bypassed the com...

Chinese students hold a sit-in in front of a living wall of police guarding Communist party headquarters, April 20, 1989 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Av...

Chinese police form a human chain in Beijing and sweep away students who, for the second night in a row tried to storm Communist party headquarters, A...