ATV Today: 27.12.1974: Stonehouse Affair

Summary

Investigations are continuing into the affairs of John Stonehouse MP who has been found in Australia after faking his death in Florida.

Year:

1974

Duration:

0:03:23

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

It has been revealed that Stonehouse, who is the Labour MP for Walsall North, used fake passports taken out in the names of deceased people from his constituency to hide his identity abroad. Bob Warman talks to Mrs. Elsie Mildoon, widow of newsagent Clive Mildoon, from Darlaston about the visit from Mr. Stonehouse shortly after her husband's death. Alan Jones interview with John Brady, Chairman of the Walsall Labour Party, re how John Stonehouse obtained a false passport and the MP's future. Exterior shot of the Mildoon newsagents on Walsall Road, Darlaston.


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