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Martsen to try and find some. Martsen found John Flitcroft, an Australian backpacker in the hotel lobby, and asked him if he had any spare rolls of film, explaining that Widener had run out of film. John said he would give him the roll of film, if he could come up to the hotel room, which overlooked Tiananmen Square. It was this roll of film which Widener used to take the Tank Man photo. Martsen later borrowed Flitcroft's rented bicycle to deliver the photo film to the AP office at the Diplomatic Compound.
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throwing rocks, and I was attacked, my camera was smashed, the lens was ripped off, it was bleeding everywhere, and I was just knocked silly, and finally once I got my head together, I went back to the AP office to bring the rolls of film, and the camera was so damaged they had to pry the film open
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Through the years, he has covered assignments in over 100 countries involving civil unrest and wars to social issues. He was the first photojournalist to file digital images from the South Pole. In 1987, he was hired as
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Widener: Well what I saw wasn't pretty, okay. There's a dead soldier on the ground where the burning armor car was, another soldier came out to surrender and the mob moved in on him and started beating him with clubs and sticks, and I don't think he made it. I was attacked and somehow talked my way
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Widener: Oh, wow, I would say that was on the night of June 3rd. I was with another AP reporter and we were riding our bicycles to, you know, just check out the scene, because it was relatively quiet, but things started getting heated when a burning armored car came down the street and people were
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In addition to being named a finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News
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