[2] Although Song denied involvement, she was presumed present when a 50-year old teacher, Bian Zhongyun, was beaten to death by the female students of her school, reportedly the first killing of the Cultural Revolution.

[2] After the Cultural Revolution, Song studied geology and moved to the United States, eventually receiving a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.

[citation needed] Andreas Lorenz of Der Spiegel writes that Beijing Teachers University was Song's school at the time the Cultural Revolution claimed its first victim;[5] at age 19 years old, Lorenz reports that she was presumed present when the female students of the school beat to death a 50-year old teacher, Bian Zhongyun, with wooden sticks spiked with nails.

[2] Song would later claim that the Communist Party's paper, the People's Daily, had forced on her the name "Yaowu", that she "was always opposed to violence", and that she had had no involvement in the murder of her teacher.

][dubious – discuss] and eventually over one million of the Guards gathered in Tiananmen Square, where Song famously pinned a red band on Mao Zedong's arm.

[7] At the end of August, Wang Renzhong met Liu Jin and Song Binbin at the Diaoyutai Guesthouse and mobilized them to go to Wuhan to protect the Hubei Provincial Committee of the CCP.

In the early spring of 1969, Song escaped from Shenyang and went to the pastoral area of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where she moved to the Xilingol League.

This matter caused controversy when Wang Jingyao, husband of Bian Zhongyun, protested because he believed that Song Binbin was the main person in charge of the Red Guards in the school during the Cultural Revolution and thus responsible for the death of his wife.

[10] In 1995, Normal University High School for Girls 1968 alumna Wang Youqin published a text in Hong Kong, "1966: Students play the teacher's revolution", for the first time since August 5, 1966, where Wang wrote that Song and other guards played a role in the death of Bian Zhongyun, are linked to form a causal relationship during those times.

Song was interviewed, and for the first time publicly stated that during the Cultural Revolution, she had never participated in violent actions such as beating people, ransacking homes, or destroying the Four Olds.

According to Wang Youqin's article, Honig claimed that Song Binbin was responsible for some of the violent activities in the early parts of Cultural Revolution.

[12] On January 12, 2014, at a meeting held at High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, which was attended by more than 20 students and more than 30 teachers and family members of the alumni, she apologized for the actions of the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.