- Title: AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIANS COMMEMORATE MASSACRE AT PORT ARTHUR
- Date: 1st May 1996
- Summary: PORT ARTHUR, CANBERRA AND HOBART, AUSTRALIA (MAY 1, 1996) (SEVEN NETWORK - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA) PORT ARTHUR, TASMANIA 1. LV HELICOPTER CARRYING AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER JOHN HOWARD ARRIVES 0.09 2. SV JOHN HOWARD WALKING TO GUEST HOUSE 0.11 3. SLV EXT OF "SEA SCAPE" GUEST HOUSE WHERE SEVERAL VICTIMS WERE SHOT 0.13 4. SV BULLET HOLE IN WINDOW OF GUEST HOUSE 0.15 5. SV PRIME MINISTER HOWARD SPEAKING (ENGLISH)/ HOWARD COMFORTING GRIEVING RELATIVES (2 SHOTS) 0.28 6. SLV HOWARD AND LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION KIM BEAZLEY LAY A WREATH AT SEASCAPE GUEST HOUSE IN PORT ARTHUR 0.42 HOBART, TASMANIA 7. SLV CHOIR BOYS IN MEMORIAL SERVICE IN HOBART'S ST. DAVIDS ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL 0.46 8. SV CONGREGATION IN CATHERAL (2 SHOTS) 0.57 9. SV OPPOSITION LEADER KIM BEAZLEY IN CONGREGATION 1.05 10.SV MEMBERS OF CONGREGATION 1.09 11.SV JOHN HOWARD IN CONGREGATION 1.18 12.TV CROWD GATHERED OUTSIDE CATHEDRAL 1.20 13.LV FLAG AT HALF MAST 1.26 14.SV/TV LIGHTING CANDLES IN SERVICE (3 SHOTS) 1.42 15.CU WOMEN CRYING 1.44 16.SV TASMANIAN GOVERNOR, SIR WILLIAM DEAN READING MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN (ENGLISH)/ CONGREGATION (3 SHOTS) 2.33 HOBART, TASMANIA 17.LV EXT ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL / ZOOM TO SV FLOWERS OUTSIDE 2.41 18.SV PEOPLE LAYING FLOWERS/ CU CARD READING 'WHY?' (2 SHOTS) 2.55 19.LV FLAGS FLYING AT HALF MAST 3.00 CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA 20.LV MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT OBSERVING ONE MINUTE'S SILENCE 3.09 HOBART, TASMANIA 21.PAN SILENCE OUTSIDE ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL 3.18 22.SV EXTERIOR OF ST. DAVIDS CATHEDRAL, HOBART 3.25 23.SV WALTER MIKIC, WHO LOST TWO DAUGHTERS AND HIS WIFE IN THE SHOOTING, IS HELPED FROM THE CHURCH 3.35 24.SLV MAN IN WHEELCHAIR 3.37 25.SV PAUL COOPER, TOUR GUIDE AT THE PORT ARTHUR SITE DESCIBES THE SHOOTING (ENGLISH) 4.06 PORT ARTHUR 26.LV SITE OF MASSACRE AT PORT ARTHUR 4.08 SEQUENCE 5 TRANSCRIPT: HOWARD: "BY COMING IT HELPS, BY SAYING AS BEST YOU CAN THAT YOU ARE SORRY AND YOU ARE CONSCIOUS OF WHAT THEY ARE FEELING HELPS, EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS. WE'RE ALL PRETTY INADEQUATE WHEN IT COMES TO SOME OF THE GREAT CHALLENGES IN LIFE." SEQUENCE 16 TRANSCRIPT: MESSAGE: "I THINK PARTICULARY AT THIS TIME OF THE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS WHO HAVE BEEN BEREAVED, AND OF THOSE WHO ARE CARING FOR SOMEONE INJURED. LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AGO IN SCOTLAND, I MET SOME OF THE FAMILIES OF THE CHILDREN WHO WERE KILLED OR INJURED AT THEIR SCHOOL IN DUNBLANE. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO RELIEVE THEIR SUFFERING, BUT POSSIBLE TO SHARE IT A LITTLE. YOUR SERVICE TODAY IS A MEANS OF SHARING - SHARING YOUR GRIEF, SHARING YOUR THANKS TO THE POLICE, AMBULANCE, AND OTHER EMERGENCY SERVICES, AND ALL THOSE WHO HELPED IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. AND MOST OF ALL, SHARING YOUR MEMORIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED." SEQUENCE 25 TRANSCRIPT: COOPER: "SOME DIED IN MY ARMS. I WENT TO THE BUS, I REALISED I HADN'T CHECKED THE BUS. THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN, I FORGET HIS NAME, WHO WAS A TOUGH OLD BIRD - HE DIED. I WENT TO THE BACK OF THE BUS TO HELP ANOTHER WOMAN, AND SHE DIED ALSO." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: PORT ARTHUR, CANBERRA AND HOBART, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
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