LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

First Hillsborough funeral

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

20 Apr 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:56

Description

Michael O’Neill reports on the first funeral for a victim of the Hillsborough stadium disaster (15/04/89), for 19 year-old Gary Church, and the high attendance including some Liverpool FC players. Includes striker John Aldridge’s reading; excerpt of sermon by the Reverend Ray Hutchinson on police criticism o f fans. Singing of congregation heard.

Contributors

Michael O’Neill; Ray Hutchinson; John Aldridge (footballer)

Keywords

Deaths; Liverpool; Association football; Football players; Funerals; Sheffield; Football stadiums; Liverpool Football Club; Disasters (events); Nottingham Forest Football Club; Hillsborough Stadium disaster (1989); Gary Church

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