USA - Sonny Bono's funeral

(10 Jan 1998) T/I: 10:12:59
Sonny Bono, the 1960s pop star who became a US Congressman and the mayor of one of America's wealthiest cities, was buried on Friday (9/1) in California. Bono, 62, died on Monday in a skiing accident. He hit a tree at the Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California-Nevada border. Bono's latest wife and his children, as well as former wife Cher and representatives from Washington, attended the funeral in Palm Springs, California, where Bono was a former mayor.
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PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, USA 9/1

Cher and daughter Chastity entering church, pull out
Photo of Sonny Bono and flower wreaths
Congregation
Close up Bono photo
Close up funeral program with picture of Bono
MS US congressmen at funeral
Flower wreath presented by Congress
Medium view of coffin being carried into church.
Coffin being carried inside church
MS priests
Coffin at altar
Cher walking to podium
Congregation
SOT: (English) Cher, actress: "When we were crying, he actually cried to, I said 'Well, I'm not 17 about to turn 18, I'm 16 about to turn 17. But I can't go through the rest of my life without you'."
Wide shot Cher at podium
SOT: (English) Cher, actress: "I wanted to tell Mary and Chesare and Chianna how proud I am of what he made himself after we were separated and his accomplishments, and I know that a person just doesn't decided to become a congressman in the middle of their life and then be one, but it is so typically Sonny, to do something so crazy like that."
Congregation
SOT: (English) Cher, actress: "And no matter how long I live or who I meet in my life that person will always be Sonny for me."
Guard of honour playing bugle
Wife and children laying flowers on coffin
Wide shot funeral site
Close up Cher walking to coffin
Guards saluting
Former US President Gerald Ford at coffin.

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