Photos: NPC Screening of "Tiananmen Tonight"

Noël-Marie Fletcher

May 13, 2026

Photo Credit: Noël-Marie Fletcher Journalists (left to right) Tom Bettag, Bob Woodruff and Susan Zirinsky tell about their experiences shown in the "Tiananmen Tonight” documentary in 1989 to Zach Cohen, secretary of the National Press Club (right).

Photo Credit: Noël-Marie Fletcher Bob Woodruff was teaching law in Beijing during the student protests in 1989 and worked as a translator for CBS there before becoming a journalist.

Photo Credit: Noël-Marie Fletcher Tom Bettag was CBS Evening News' executive producer during the Tiananmen Square student protests.

Photo Credit: Noël-Marie Fletcher Bob Woodruff recognized some of his law students as they joined the Tiananmen Square protests and saw bodies of some protesters taken to the campus after they were killed during the military crush.

Photo Credit: Noël-Marie Fletcher Susan Zirinsky went to Beijing in 1989 to prepare to oversee CBS News coverage of a visit by Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev as the student protests started.

Tom Bettag, Bob Woodruff and Susan Zirinsky attended a screening and panel discussion of "Tiananmen Tonight" - a documentary about the CBS Evening News team's reporting on the 1989 Chinese uprising - at the National Press Club on May 13, 2026.