Harold Holt with ABC crew, At Home with Harold Holt LR Prime Minister Harold Holt, ABC cameraman Don McAlpine and Director John Tingle ABC Supervisor of TV News, Sydney discuss underwater sequences during filming of the PM for a Weekend Magazine story from his weekend home at Portsea, Vic The program was broadcasts on the ABC on 10/4/1966 a year before his deathOn the 17th December 1967, Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, went for a swim on Cheviot Beach near his holiday home at Portsea in Victoria He disappeared beneath the waves and was never seen again Hispanions raised the alarm, and what ensued was one of the largest search and rescue operations Australia has ever witnessed Holt’s body was never found, fuelling many theories regarding his disappearance, ranging from suicide to abduction by a Chinese submarine, abcau/photo/Holt_H001
Photograph of three men wearing swimsuits and one has a mask on his head and the other has a tube on his head.
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