I realized that the public security bureau had been watching us from the rooftop by binoculars, so I went in and unloaded the film from the camera and put it into the plastic film can and went into the toilet and took off the top of the toilet and put it in the holding tank, put the top back on. Shortly after that, ten, fifteen minutes afterwards, the public security bureau broke through the door. They got one other roll of film from the shots that I had taken the night before and they were pretty satisfied they had cleaned up the situation. About a day and a half later, I worked my way back through the backstreets to the Beijing Hotel and luckily nobody had flushed the toilet. One of the most famous photographs of the 21st century was floating in the top of the toilet and literally could have been flushed.
Charles Cole, Photojournalist who shot the iconic photograph of the man standing in front of the column of tanks in Tinnemans Square. (via soupsoup)

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