Australian Prime Minister

John Gorton

at Honeysuckle Creek

Monday 21st July 1969 (Australian time)



Prime Minister Gorton’s statement

Australian Prime Minister John Gorton speaks to an ABC-TV reporter and reads a statement immediately after his tour inside the Honeysuckle Creek Operations building. It is about 3 hours after the landing, and 4 hours before the First Step.

This unedited news film runs for 5 minutes and 14 seconds. It was filmed in the car parking area just opposite the main door.

It was provided by Geoff Crane Producer / Director with ABC-TV in Canberra. With grateful thanks to ABC-TV’s Stateline ACT edition for their permission to make this clip available.

The clip is a 21MB MP4 file. Right click (Win) or Control click (Mac) to save it to your hard disk.

(If you have trouble playing it, you may care to use either Quicktime or VLC.)


John Gorton at HSK

Image: Australian National Archives.

 


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