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Bob Wilesmith on the Whitlam Dismissal: The news breaks
Title:
Bob Wilesmith on the Whitlam Dismissal: The news breaks
NFSA ID
1258792
Year
2014
Camera operator Bob Wilesmith was working for Channel 7 in the Parliament House bureau in Canberra on 11 November 1975, the day Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his government from office.
He remembers the feeling of expectation within the Canberra press gallery as the political impasse built pressure on the Whitlam Government. During the calm before the storm, Bob recalled the first sign that something momentous might be about to happen.
Geoff Gardner interviewed Bob Wilesmith for the NFSA's Oral History program in 2014.
Read more in The 1975 Whitlam Dismissal: News Footage
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