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Whitlam Dismissal: Stripping Gough Whitlam’s office
Title:
Whitlam Dismissal: Stripping Gough Whitlam’s office
NFSA ID
554993
Year
1975
Courtesy
Seven Network
Camera operator Bob Wilesmith was working for Channel 7 in the Parliament House bureau in Canberra on 11 November 1975, and was an eyewitness on the day that Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his government from office.
Here, his camera captures a flurry of activity around the House of Representatives side of Parliament House as Whitlam's filing cabinets were removed from his office into waiting vans.
Read more in The 1975 Whitlam Dismissal: News Footage
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