From the archives: How The Times covered China’s Cultural Revolution
Red Guards to aim attacks at party dissidents (Sept. 1966)
“A mass rally of 1 million ‘revolutionary vanguards’ in Peking’s Square of Heavenly Peace were told by Defense Minister Lin Piao, China’s new master, to ‘bombard the headquarters’ of his opponents within the party everywhere in China.”
Sources: Los Angeles Times archives
Credits: Robert S. Elegant