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IKE FUNERAL VIDEO TAPE
SOUND COMING
MAN ON CAMERA
President Nixon and his family are spending the
Easter holidays at their home in Key Biscayne,
Florida. They flew there today after attending
the funeral of former president Eisenhower in
Abiline, Kansas. Mr. Eisehhower was buried in the
chapel of Eisenhower Center. The population of
Abiline is around eight thousand. And police es-
timate one hundred thousand persons lined the streets
today, as the funeral procession moved from the
train station to the chapel,THOLCLOSE AT NATURAL FADEOUT.
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TAPE IN HERE
SOUND TILL END
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Ike Funeral], script, April 2, 1969, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1079966/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.