October Marks 46th Anniversary of Mexico City's 1968 Student Massacre Joe Richman and Anayansi Diaz-Cortes - NPR.org
go to original September 30, 2014

Here's an audio-visual collage Hernán Castillo put together as a way to commemorate and remember the lives of those who fell during that tragic night. (Hernán Castillo)

In the summer of 1968, Mexico was experiencing the birth of a new student movement.

But that movement was short-lived. On Oct. 2, 1968, 10 days before the opening of the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, police officers and military troops shot into a crowd of unarmed students. Thousands of demonstrators fled in panic as tanks bulldozed over Tlatelolco Plaza.

Government sources originally reported that four people had been killed and 20 wounded, while eyewitnesses described the bodies of hundreds of young people being trucked away. Thousands of students were beaten and jailed, and many disappeared. Forty-eight years later, the final death toll remains a mystery, but documents released by the U.S. and Mexican governments give a better picture of what may have triggered the massacre.

Read Mexico's 1968 Massacre: What Really Happened? at NPR.org

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