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NBC NEWS
BROADCASTING’S LARGEST NEWS ORGANIZATION
December 1, 1964
NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT C-ECRGE CLAY BURIED IN JUNGLE CEMETERY NEAR STANLEYVILLE
NBC News correspondent George Clay, who was killed last week while marching with Congolese government troops toward Stanleyville, was buried Sunday (Nov. 29) in a simple military ceremony in a small neglected cemetery near Stanleyville that is rapidly reverting to its original jungle growth.
Clay's body, and that of a South African mercenary who also had been killed in the ambush, was left in an abandoned truck by the advancing column. A helicopter finally was sent Nov. 29, with two air¬ planes for cover against rebel sniper fire, to retrieve the bodies.
Because a coffin was unavailable. Clay's body was wrapped in a sheet that had his name written on it with a ballpoint pen. Attending the burial ceremonies were a Belgian priest. Major Michael Hoare, who commands the mercenary troops, and a platoon of Congolese paracommandos .
Clay was performing his journalistic duties as usual, this time recording sound of the battle, when he was killed. But according to a friend, British Broadcasting Corporation reporter Peter Flynn, Clay had become disheartened by the Congolese war.
On the NBC Radio "Monitor" program Nov. 29, Flynn related a conversation he had with Clay earlier this year: '"...I've come to the end now, ' Clay said. 'For a long time I could keep going because of the marvelous television it was producing. But a little while ago, on a
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