Video: 'Masacre en Tlatelolco, 2 De octubre 1968'

(Wednesday, October 2, 1968, at about 6:15 p.m. CST; during the Tlatelolco massacre) — 10 days before the opening of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, police fired into a crowd of thousands of protesters today at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the neighborhood of Tlatelolco.

The Mexican government listed the death toll at 32 and claimed that most of the victims were killed by students who were firing machine guns from surrounding buildings.

Foreign journalists who were present at the scene, and survivors, estimated that between 150 and 500 protesters were killed.