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*RES* BARBARA JORDAN FUNERAL (01/20/1996)
HOUSTON, TX
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1/20/1996
48:25
3:30
Houston, TX MANDATORY COURTESY KHOU
PEOPLE LOOKING AT CASKET, PEOPLE SITTING IN PEW, PEOPLE WALKING BY CASKET AS GUARDS STAND THERE, CLINTON WALKING BY CASKET, PRIEST SPEAKING AT FUNERAL, MAN SINGING, MAN SPEAKING, CLINTON SITTING WITH HIS EYES SHUT, WOMAN SPEAKING, CASKET HAS AMERICAN FLAG DRAPED OVER IT.
In Houston, Texas today the funeral of a "national treasure"...former congresswoman and University of Texas professor Barbara Jordan. President Clinton spoke at the funeral service, remembering Jordan as a "representative of the people with a powerful voice and a great spirit." In 1994, Clinton presented Jordan with the nation's highest clivilian honor - the Presidential medal of freedom. He also prepared brief remarks along with other mourners at the funeral sevice at the Good Hope Missionary Baptist church in Houston. Jordan was both a Texas pioner in politics, and a national leader in the civil rights movement. As a voice for the poor, Jordan in 1972 became the first black woman elected to congress from a former confederate state. Before that, she had been the first black woman in the Texas legislature. Again in 1976 Jordan broke down racial barriers when she became a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson school of public affairs at the University of Texas. As a member of the House Judiciary committee in 1974, Jordan voted to impeach president nixon for crimes related to the Watergate scandal. The former legislator had been in poor health for several years before her death...and died of pneumonia wednesday at an Austin Hopsital at the age of 59.
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