Ron Ashmore on the Whitlam Dismissal: Watching history happen
2013
Ron Ashmore on the Whitlam Dismissal: Watching history happen
2013
- NFSA IDW8D1H9SD
- TypeOral History
- MediumAudio
- FormOral history
- Duration5 hrs, 25 mins, 22 secs
- GenresBiographical
- Year2013
Ron Ashmore was a camera operator for Channel 9 in Melbourne. Here he recalls the events of 11 November 1975, the day Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his government from office.
Ashmore was in Canberra with his assistant, John Bowring, and producer Doug Wooding to film a documentary on Jim Cairns and Junie Morosi, whose affair had recently rocked the government. While Ashmore and his team were waiting on the steps of Parliament House for a promised interview with Cairns, political history began to unfold around them.
John Fife interviewed Ron Ashmore for the NFSA's Oral History program in 2013.
Read more in The 1975 Whitlam Dismissal: News Footage
Ron Ashmore was a camera operator for Channel 9 in Melbourne. Here he recalls the events of 11 November 1975, the day Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his government from office.
Ashmore was in Canberra with his assistant, John Bowring, and producer Doug Wooding to film a documentary on Jim Cairns and Junie Morosi, whose affair had recently rocked the government. While Ashmore and his team were waiting on the steps of Parliament House for a promised interview with Cairns, political history began to unfold around them.
John Fife interviewed Ron Ashmore for the NFSA's Oral History program in 2013.
Read more in The 1975 Whitlam Dismissal: News Footage
- NFSA IDW8D1H9SD
- TypeOral History
- MediumAudio
- FormOral history
- Duration5 hrs, 25 mins, 22 secs
- GenresBiographical
- Year2013
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