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What was the federal government's reaction to the tiananmen square massacre

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Reactions to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Government sources downplayed the violence against demonstrators on 3 and 4 June, and portrayed the public as supportive of the crackdown

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They were upset

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In a speech to the President's Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn, former deputy special assistant to President Richard Nixon, alleged that he was executed 14 days later; other sources alleged he was executed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests.

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