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In reply to the discussion: Gough Whitlam Memorial Service [View all]

CBHagman

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4. Not to take the attention from Gough Whitlam...
Tue Nov 18, 2014, 11:30 PM
Nov 2014

...but booing at memorial services is not unheard of in the United States. When the memorial for Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) was held in 2002, just before a midterm election, at least one Republican lawmaker was booed by the crowd. The American right-wing media immediately made that the story, rather than the unbearably tragic deaths of Wellstone, his wife, his daughter, several staffers, and pilot and co-pilot in a plane crash.

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