Dan Mitrione's body returned to Richmond
RICHMOND, Ind. (UPI)-Dan Mitrione came home today aboard an Air Force plane, three days after he was murdered by Uruguayan terrorists.
The body of the 50-year-old former Richmond police chief was accompanied by his widow, Henrietta, and their nine children. The five oldest children were flown Tuesday from their homes in the Washington area to Montevideo, where they joined their mother and the four younger children for the flight to Dayton, Ohio. They completed their journey to Richmond by car.
The body will lie in state later today in the city's new downtown municipal building. It's situated across the street from the old city hall, where Mitrione worked as a policeman until he joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1960.
There'll be a police honor guard stationed around the bier as thousands of mourners file by. There'll also probably be choirs singing, although complete details for the next two days are still being worked out.
Mayor Byron Klute, who has ordered flags flown at half-staff, and city council president Phil Marino will deliver remarks prior to the funeral services at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Holy Family Catholic Church, Rev. Larry Crawford officiating.
Mitrione was kidnaped July 31 by terrorists in Uruguay and held hostage. When the Uruguayan government refused to release 150 political prisoners, the kidnappers fired two bullets into Mitrione's head and left the body in an abandoned stolen car, which was found in Montevideo Monday.
A military band played somber funeral music as the body was placed aboard the plane in Montevideo for the long trip home. Members of the Uruguayan cabinet joined U. S. Ambassador Charles W. Adair Jr. in bidding farewell to Mitrione. Members of the Diplomatic Corps in Montevideo as well as Uruguayan military chiefs also were on hand.
The body was in an unpainted pine coffin.
Mrs. Mitrione, bundled in a tweed coat to protect herself from a brisk wind carrying a bouquet of white carnations, tried hard to comfort her often crying children.
She wore sunglasses to cover her own reddened eyes and tried hard to avoid her husband's coffin covered with both flags of the United States and Uruguay.
Decatur Daily Democrat; Adams County, Indiana
Wednesday, August 12, 1970
Contributed by Janice Vasilovski
RICHMOND, Ind. (UPI)-Dan Mitrione came home today aboard an Air Force plane, three days after he was murdered by Uruguayan terrorists.
The body of the 50-year-old former Richmond police chief was accompanied by his widow, Henrietta, and their nine children. The five oldest children were flown Tuesday from their homes in the Washington area to Montevideo, where they joined their mother and the four younger children for the flight to Dayton, Ohio. They completed their journey to Richmond by car.
The body will lie in state later today in the city's new downtown municipal building. It's situated across the street from the old city hall, where Mitrione worked as a policeman until he joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1960.
There'll be a police honor guard stationed around the bier as thousands of mourners file by. There'll also probably be choirs singing, although complete details for the next two days are still being worked out.
Mayor Byron Klute, who has ordered flags flown at half-staff, and city council president Phil Marino will deliver remarks prior to the funeral services at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Holy Family Catholic Church, Rev. Larry Crawford officiating.
Mitrione was kidnaped July 31 by terrorists in Uruguay and held hostage. When the Uruguayan government refused to release 150 political prisoners, the kidnappers fired two bullets into Mitrione's head and left the body in an abandoned stolen car, which was found in Montevideo Monday.
A military band played somber funeral music as the body was placed aboard the plane in Montevideo for the long trip home. Members of the Uruguayan cabinet joined U. S. Ambassador Charles W. Adair Jr. in bidding farewell to Mitrione. Members of the Diplomatic Corps in Montevideo as well as Uruguayan military chiefs also were on hand.
The body was in an unpainted pine coffin.
Mrs. Mitrione, bundled in a tweed coat to protect herself from a brisk wind carrying a bouquet of white carnations, tried hard to comfort her often crying children.
She wore sunglasses to cover her own reddened eyes and tried hard to avoid her husband's coffin covered with both flags of the United States and Uruguay.
Decatur Daily Democrat; Adams County, Indiana
Wednesday, August 12, 1970
Contributed by Janice Vasilovski
Dan Mitrione's body returned to Richmond
RICHMOND, Ind. (UPI)-Dan Mitrione came home today aboard an Air Force plane, three days after he was murdered by Uruguayan terrorists.
The body of the 50-year-old former Richmond police chief was accompanied by his widow, Henrietta, and their nine children. The five oldest children were flown Tuesday from their homes in the Washington area to Montevideo, where they joined their mother and the four younger children for the flight to Dayton, Ohio. They completed their journey to Richmond by car.
The body will lie in state later today in the city's new downtown municipal building. It's situated across the street from the old city hall, where Mitrione worked as a policeman until he joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1960.
There'll be a police honor guard stationed around the bier as thousands of mourners file by. There'll also probably be choirs singing, although complete details for the next two days are still being worked out.
Mayor Byron Klute, who has ordered flags flown at half-staff, and city council president Phil Marino will deliver remarks prior to the funeral services at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Holy Family Catholic Church, Rev. Larry Crawford officiating.
Mitrione was kidnaped July 31 by terrorists in Uruguay and held hostage. When the Uruguayan government refused to release 150 political prisoners, the kidnappers fired two bullets into Mitrione's head and left the body in an abandoned stolen car, which was found in Montevideo Monday.
A military band played somber funeral music as the body was placed aboard the plane in Montevideo for the long trip home. Members of the Uruguayan cabinet joined U. S. Ambassador Charles W. Adair Jr. in bidding farewell to Mitrione. Members of the Diplomatic Corps in Montevideo as well as Uruguayan military chiefs also were on hand.
The body was in an unpainted pine coffin.
Mrs. Mitrione, bundled in a tweed coat to protect herself from a brisk wind carrying a bouquet of white carnations, tried hard to comfort her often crying children.
She wore sunglasses to cover her own reddened eyes and tried hard to avoid her husband's coffin covered with both flags of the United States and Uruguay.
Decatur Daily Democrat; Adams County, Indiana
Wednesday, August 12, 1970
Contributed by Janice Vasilovski
RICHMOND, Ind. (UPI)-Dan Mitrione came home today aboard an Air Force plane, three days after he was murdered by Uruguayan terrorists.
The body of the 50-year-old former Richmond police chief was accompanied by his widow, Henrietta, and their nine children. The five oldest children were flown Tuesday from their homes in the Washington area to Montevideo, where they joined their mother and the four younger children for the flight to Dayton, Ohio. They completed their journey to Richmond by car.
The body will lie in state later today in the city's new downtown municipal building. It's situated across the street from the old city hall, where Mitrione worked as a policeman until he joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1960.
There'll be a police honor guard stationed around the bier as thousands of mourners file by. There'll also probably be choirs singing, although complete details for the next two days are still being worked out.
Mayor Byron Klute, who has ordered flags flown at half-staff, and city council president Phil Marino will deliver remarks prior to the funeral services at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Holy Family Catholic Church, Rev. Larry Crawford officiating.
Mitrione was kidnaped July 31 by terrorists in Uruguay and held hostage. When the Uruguayan government refused to release 150 political prisoners, the kidnappers fired two bullets into Mitrione's head and left the body in an abandoned stolen car, which was found in Montevideo Monday.
A military band played somber funeral music as the body was placed aboard the plane in Montevideo for the long trip home. Members of the Uruguayan cabinet joined U. S. Ambassador Charles W. Adair Jr. in bidding farewell to Mitrione. Members of the Diplomatic Corps in Montevideo as well as Uruguayan military chiefs also were on hand.
The body was in an unpainted pine coffin.
Mrs. Mitrione, bundled in a tweed coat to protect herself from a brisk wind carrying a bouquet of white carnations, tried hard to comfort her often crying children.
She wore sunglasses to cover her own reddened eyes and tried hard to avoid her husband's coffin covered with both flags of the United States and Uruguay.
Decatur Daily Democrat; Adams County, Indiana
Wednesday, August 12, 1970
Contributed by Janice Vasilovski
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