Iranian Hostage Crisis
“The U.S. Embassy compound, Tehran, November 4, 1979. Crowds of students storm the gates and pour into the chancery courtyard. Foreground shows a blindfolded American hostage being led out before cameras; midground reveals chants and a stream of revolutionaries climbing the brick walls; portraits of Khomeini rise above the throng as smoke from burning documents drifts from a chimney.”
