Third day of Thatcher’s visit to Falklands

Title

Third day of Thatcher’s visit to Falklands

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

Jan 1983

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:05:33

Description

Report on the third day of the Falkland Islands visit of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She talks to local people about their experience of the war and fires a battery gun. She visits the grave of Lieutenant Nicholas Taylor at Goose Green and gives a speech in the town hall there. David Walter reports from Port Stanley for ITN- pooled report.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; ITN

Keywords

Armed forces; Margaret Thatcher; Prime ministers; State visits; Falklands War (1982); Falkland Islands; Army; Guns; War casualties; Cemeteries; Air force personnel; War graves; Goose Green; San Carlos; Nicholas Taylor; Fitzroy

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