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Charlie Cole

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Gender Male
Death5 years ago
Date of birth February 28,1955
Zodiac sign Pisces
Born Texas
United States
Date of died September 5,2019
DiedBali
Indonesia
Awards World Press Photo of the Year
World Press Photo Award for Spot News
Height 193 (cm)
Weight 91 (kg)
Teams United States
Education Yale University
Olympic medalRowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four
Teammates Henrik Rummel
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Charlie Cole Life story


Charles Cole is an American rower. He is a graduate of Yale and Kellogg College, Oxford, where he competed on the rowing team. Charlie was USRowing's Athlete of the Year in 2011. During the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Coxless Four and won a bronze medal.

Tiananmen square Tank Man photographer Charlie Cole dies

Feb 16,2020 6:12 am

The photos of the Tiananmen Tank Man was from some of The World 's most famous

Charlie Cole , one of the photographers who covered the famous Tank Man died on the film during the Tiananmen Square protests.

The Image of a man to stand in the way of a column of tanks A Day after hundreds, possibly thousands of people died, has democracy, a defining image of the 1989 pro-protests.

Cole won.

He had been living in Bali, Indonesia, where he died last week at the age of 64.

Cole was one of four photographers who captured The Scene on 5. June 1989.

He took his picture for Newsweek with a telephoto lens from The Balcony of a hotel, framing it so The Man was only just in the bottom left Corner .

Charlie Cole (right) in the picture in South Korea in 1987,

Cole described later, as he had expected, The Man would be killed, and felt it was his responsibility to record what was happening.

But the unknown protester was eventually moved away from The Scene by two men. What happened to him remains unknown.

A symbol of peaceful resistance

Cole knew he would be searched later by the Chinese security, so she hid the undeveloped roll of film in The Bathroom .

Shortly after he took over, the officers broke down the door and searched the room, but you don't discover the film.

Cole , center, during the protests in South Korea in 1987,

The Scene , such as shooting through him, and The Other three photographers went on to become an iconic symbol of peaceful resistance in The World .

Thirty years ago, Beijing's Tiananmen Square became the focus for the large-scale protests, calling for reforms and democracy.

protesters camped out have been for weeks on The Square , but late of the 3. June, which moved the military and the troops opened fire.

China has always said that 200 civilians and security forces died, it was but not in the public record of death released cases. Witnesses and foreign journalists have said that the number of up to 3,000 could.

Tiananmen Square is still a heavily censored topic in modern China, and of the Tank Man images are prohibited.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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