Скачать или смотреть Crowds greet coffin of Coretta Scott King at Georgia state Capitol

(5 Feb 2006)
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1. Medium shot of Coretta Scott King's coffin arriving by horse-drawn carriage
2. Wide shot of Georgia Capitol
3. Wide shot of coffin arriving by horse-drawn carriage in front of Georgia Capitol
4. Wide shot of King family being greeted by the Governor of Georgia
5. Medium shot of coffin being taken from carriage by a Georgia State Patrol Guard of Honour
6. Close up of flags flying at half-mast on top of Georgia capitol zoom out wide
7. Various shots of coffin being carried up stairs into Capitol
8. Various shots of crowd standing in line outside waiting to go into see Coretta Scott King
9. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Catherine Heath, knows the family
"I remember what life was like before Dr. King made his move, I remember being where I had to sit in the back of the bus and there were different things that I could not do and now because of his legacy I'm able now to do the things that I would like to do and my grandchildren are able to go to the better schools and get better jobs."
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10. Various shots of guard of honour bringing coffin into the Georgia Capitol Rotunda
11. Wide shot of Coretta Scott King lying in coffin and family coming to her side
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12. Wide shot of people going into the Georgia Capitol building to pay their respects
13. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Maddix Moore, Rainbow Push Coalition
"What this really says was that she was a great lady, not only here in Atlanta, or the state of Georgia, but throughout the nation and around the world because people are coming from all corners of the world this weekend to pay respects to Mrs. King."
14. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Quency Powell, Came to pay respects
"I think its appropriate, to have honoured her in any other way would have been sort of an injustice, so in my mind I see it as minimally what should have been done to honour her appropriately."
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15. Wide shot of people paying respects to Coretta Scott King
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta on Saturday to pay tribute to the civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
Cold weather, and gusty winds did not deter mourners from pouring into Georgia Capitol Rotunda to pay tribute to the widow of the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, the first woman and the first black person to lie in honour in a statehouse that was once a bastion of segregation.
Police estimated 10,000 people in less than three hours had passed briskly within about 5 feet of the open coffin in the marble Rotunda, where King lay in her pink suit.
The bronze coffin was carried through the streets of Atlanta on a horse-drawn carriage before being ushered into the Capitol by a Georgia State Patrol honour guard.
A lone bagpipe played Amazing Grace.
Georgia's flag, which Mrs. King had helped change to remove the Confederate Cross, flew at half mast.
Governor Sonny Perdue and his wife Mary escorted the coffin into the statehouse, a sharp contrast to the official snub afforded Martin Luther King Junior nearly four decades ago by segregationist Governor Lester Maddox.
King's four children - Yolanda, Dexter, Martin Luther King III and Bernice - spent a few minutes with their mother before the doors were thrown open to the public.
King, the "first lady of the civil rights movement," died Monday at the age of 78.
In 1968, then-Governor Maddox ignored Martin Luther King Junior's death and refused to authorise a public tribute.
He was outraged at the idea of state flags, then dominated by the Confederate Cross, flying at half-mast in tribute to a black man.

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