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Posted By: Hankron

And for you wire photo anectdote of the day: About a year or two ago I met the head of the photo archives for one of Britain's largest news services and, in his younger days, a wirephoto technician for AP. According to him, he said that the Holy Grail of wirephotos is the original showing that 1989 Beijing student stopping the tank in Tieneman Square. He said that, due to a technical glitch in the process, only one original hard copy was made and exists.