ID: 901001708 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001708	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Tlatelolco Massacre (Mexican history, 1968)

Note: Killing of individuals gathered at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco district of Mexico City, to quell long-running student protests and avoid embarrassment during that year's Olympic Games.

Display Date: 2 October 1968

Names:

	Tlatelolco Massacre (Mexican history, 1968) (preferred,t,English-P,D,P)
	Masacre de Tlatelolco (Mexican history, 1968) (o,Spanish,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<North and South American history> (P)
		........Mexican history (P)
		............Tlatelolco Massacre (Mexican history, 1968) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... massacre
	.....(deaths, personal life events, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	originated in .... Mexico City
	.....(Distrito Federal, Mexico, North and Central America) (TGN)

Sources:

	Tlatelolco Massacre (Mexican history, 1968)
	................Carey, Plaza of Sacrifices (2005) 1
	................Marley, Mexico at War (2014) 405
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 15 March 2017
	Masacre de Tlatelolco (Mexican history, 1968)
	................Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco [online] (2017-) accessed 15 March 2017
	................Jardón, 1968: el fuego de la esperanza (1998) 100
	................Poniatowska, La noche de Tlatelolco (1971) 169

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Marley, Mexico at War (2014) 405
	................ Carey, Plaza of Sacrifices (2005) 1
	................ Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco [online] (2017-) accessed 15 March 2017