A Shred of Hope: The Search for Harold Holt (1967) | RetroFocus

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Australia's Prime Minister was declared missing on 17th December 1967, and the news was broadcast into homes around the country and overseas.
A massive land and sea search swung into action within hours, while ABC crews on the ground provided up-to-the-minute reporting in this early example of rolling news coverage.
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@aloseronline4659 3 года назад

I still don’t understand HOW WE LITERALLY LOST A PRIME MINISTER

@Methne555 3 года назад

Because he drowned while scuba diving. My parents said that it was a huge tragedy and story, obviously, at the time. Menzies also had the future of Australia mapped out prior to his resignation and Holt taking over. Holt’s death changed the course of Australia.

@ericastier1646 3 года назад

@@Methne555 sharks can be more active in the surf when there is bad weather. He might have had a bad encounter.

@alanbstard4 2 года назад

why? we've lost the entire country

@wilburmcbride8096 2 года назад

@@ericastier1646 Can a shark gobble up a whole human being and not leave no evidence (arm, leg, etc)?

@joelmelissam Год назад

This is why we can’t have nice things.

@MrDisasterboy 3 года назад

I am still in awe that Melbourne named a swimming pool after him.

@msstarlight4770 3 года назад

Oh wow! Wouldn't a park, or something, have been more appropriate? 😮😮😮

@AZ2PM 3 года назад

@@msstarlight4770 I grew up going to Harold Holt for swimming lessons. Had no idea why it was called that until i was older!

@msstarlight4770 3 года назад

@@AZ2PM Yeah, there's probably lots of places like that where people, in general, don't know anything about the person the place is named for. But still, naming a swimming pool after someone who was presumed drowned, seems a bit of dark humor, there.

@madisonmoffat5613 3 года назад

He was famously known to be a swimming enthusiast, he was the federal parliamentary member for the area in which the complex was at the time being built. It's more than just some random pool, the complex was seen at the time as a significant advance for Melbourne recreational culture; and for civic culture given it's Brutalist architecture. I suspect the intended sentiment was well taken; and if the family somehow objected you can be sure the idea would have been quickly retracted.

@sandrastone7019 3 года назад

The old Malvern Baths. Used to swim there in the sixties.

@shabberto 3 года назад

Someone told me recently that news presenters were required to use British received pronunciation for a very long time. Amazing.

@martinjenkins6467 9 месяцев назад

The ABC had standards in those days.

@barlowmccarthy1295 3 года назад

I’ve been to the beach in Portsea and it can be really rough.

@kermitdefroog2509 3 года назад

You mean the point

@mathewtoll6780 3 года назад

This is amazing - thanks for posting this

@adriaandeleeuw8339 29 дней назад

I still remember exactly where I was at the time,

@terrystephens1102 3 года назад

I’ve not previously seen this coverage of the search for PM Holt. I was living at Ocean Grove at the time and remember the helicopters making sweeps of the coastline down as far as Anglesea. My father was a professional fisherman at Barwon Heads, and he doubted, based on his thirty years experience of the area, that a body would be recovered because of the offshore currents.

@Scarlettekkk_- 3 года назад

His under the sea. Your dad is right

@jannyjanjan2385 Год назад

Ocean Grove or Anglesea is nowhere near Portsea! Opposite ends. You speak crap!

@terrystephens1102 Год назад

@@jannyjanjan2385 it’s a pity you don’t know what you are talking about.

@adriaandeleeuw8339 29 дней назад

@@jannyjanjan2385 Portsea not PORTLAND, Ocean Grove is eleven kilometres from Cheviot Beach. Forty Kilomeres from Anglesea. My neighbors were at Sorrento back beach they saw lots of helicopters that week. They were out wide as well as in close to the beach on both sides of the Peninsula.

@50centgotshot9times Год назад

I love the Chinese submarine theory. It's so ridiculous and funny to imagine. This was a time when a prime minister could do as he pleased and I'm sure he thought he knew better but the ocean isn't something to mess with no matter who you are.

@martinjenkins6467 9 месяцев назад

Kevin Rudd loves China so much, Amazed he didn't go off in a submarine.

@ulrikezachmann7596 Год назад

This coverage brings back so many memories. I remember all the comments. Everyone knew that coastal area was dangerous. D24 was the only police division for that area at the time located in Frankston.

@samwilliams8730 Год назад

Everybody always looked slim in that era, before fast food takeaways took over.

@RoderickSloan 3 месяца назад

Great to see R I P Prime Minister Mr Holt

@p-h-a-n-t-o-m 2 года назад

Crazy how most of the people in this are probably dead

@warrenrandall6936 2 года назад

That's an embarrassing way for a country's leader to die.

@gurneymcbuzzin Год назад

How did he die?

@aliburns2150 Год назад

@@gurneymcbuzzin Drowning in the sea.

@markbrown4039 2 года назад

I love watching coverage of breaking news. Thanks for posting! It's also nice to see a time when news organizations actually presented the facts as they knew them, and not put a spin on them.

@jeanhawken4482 3 года назад

It was the roughest weather and he had been drinking. What did he expect he would not take advice.

@alanbstard4 3 года назад

shark I reckon

@ericastier1646 3 года назад

Yep my thinking also. They're more active in the surf when there's bad weather.

@andrewgreenwood9068 2 года назад

honestly it is more likely he just drowned. the beach he was at is very dangerous with large waves and overhangs and caves underwater

@alanbstard4 2 года назад

@@andrewgreenwood9068 he went there every morning. He was a fanatic about it. I think he may have known the place well, and the search was quck to follow with naval and police divers who found nought. that is why I suspect a shark. However, it may be he misjudged thing and drowned.

@darrenwilson6224 3 года назад

That was so good.

@mickc6347 2 года назад

I love this stuff.

@libbybeaton 6 месяцев назад

Amazing that more people didn't make a fuss or care that he was at the beach with his girlfriend Marjorie Gillespie and not his wife.

@OTTFFSSENTE 3 года назад

How is this possible.

@soaringraven7194 2 года назад

Because australia

@chrismorris6865 Год назад

He went for a swim, currents can be strong.

@347windsor3 3 года назад

He was bumped off by the elite !

@Scarlettekkk_- 3 года назад

Mmmm

@509cougs 3 года назад

He was the elite.

@nihilistic7840 Год назад

@@509cougs the elite don't work at that level - he may have been a puppet of the elite - in which case he may have misplayed his hand

@509cougs Год назад

@@nihilistic7840 I posted this so long ago I don't even remember what it was about.

@nihilistic7840 Год назад

@@509cougs a year can seem like a long time sometimes

@ianrandell9763 3 года назад

We'll never know what happened to harold holt

@notsureiL 2 года назад

Was he a good prime minister?

@ianrandell9763 2 года назад

@@notsureiL i can't really say, as it was before my time, but I'm just interested in history.

@ericastier1646 3 года назад

He was eaten alive.

@1967hashem 3 года назад

Newsreaders in those days could speak beautiful clear English unlike many on the ABC today.

@mj.l 3 года назад

they spoke like posh toffs

@1967hashem 3 года назад

@@mj.l Maybe they were just well educated. At least you could understand their diction.

@skullsaintdead 3 года назад

@@1967hashem Who can't understand the newsreaders on the ABC now? If anything, they're more clear (better sound quality).

@1967hashem 3 года назад

@@skullsaintdead More clear??? Who you being listening to? I'm talking about newsreaders up until the 1970's. I do agree with you the sound and vision quality has improved over time.