'President Johnson was in tears': remembering Harold Holt

By Jacqueline Maley
Updated June 28 2018 - 1:20pm, first published December 12 2017 - 12:00am
Sir Harold Holt spearfishing at Portsea, in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria shortly before his death.  Photo: Alan Lambert
Sir Harold Holt spearfishing at Portsea, in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria shortly before his death. Photo: Alan Lambert

A PRIME minister drowning in rough surf is the stuff of movies, except it famously happened here. Fifty years on, Harold Holt’s niece recalls an awful day, a gentler time – and hitching a ride home on Prince Charles’ jet.

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