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Title: Defense Minister General Mejía Víctores At Funeral Ceremony For Cardinal Casariego In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-06-15
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guatemalan Defense Minister Brigadier General Óscar Mejía Víctores (1930-2016), center, walks along the casket of Archbishop of Guatemala Cardinal Mario Casariego y Acevedo, who died of a heart attack in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 15, 1983. Mejía Víctores deposed General Efraín Ríos Montt in a coup d'état on August 8, 1983. In 2011, Mejía was prosecuted in Guatemalan court for his command responsibility in genocide and crimes against humanity committed by the military during the civil war. His failing health in the years prior to his death forced prosecutors to drop the charges before he could stand trial.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Military; Government; Human rights violations; Funerals; Mario Casariego y Acevedo; Óscar Mejía Víctores
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Óscar Mejía Víctores
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0103_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96952
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Title: Defense Minister General Mejía Víctores At Funeral Ceremony For Cardinal Casariego In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-06-15
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guatemalan Defense Minister Brigadier General Óscar Mejía Víctores (1930-2016), center, walks along the casket of Archbishop of Guatemala Cardinal Mario Casariego y Acevedo, who died of a heart attack in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 15, 1983. Mejía Víctores deposed General Efraín Ríos Montt in a coup d'état on August 8, 1983. In 2011, Mejía was prosecuted in Guatemalan court for his command responsibility in genocide and crimes against humanity committed by the military during the civil war. His failing health in the years prior to his death forced prosecutors to drop the charges before he could stand trial.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Genocide; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Military; Government; Human rights violations; Funerals; Mario Casariego y Acevedo; Óscar Mejía Víctores
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Óscar Mejía Víctores
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0104_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96953
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral Ceremony For Cardinal Casariego In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-06-15
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guatemalan army soldiers stand next to 105mm howitzers in Parque Central as part of the honor guard during the funeral of Archbishop of Guatemala Cardinal Mario Casariego y Acevedo, who died of a heart attack in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 15, 1983. The Cardinal maintained close relations with many political and military officials and was considered to be an ally of the authoritarian state regime.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Military; Funerals; Mario Casariego y Acevedo
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0105_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96954
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral Ceremony For Cardinal Casariego In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-06-15
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guatemalan army soldiers stand next to 105mm howitzers in Parque Central as part of the honor guard during the funeral of Archbishop of Guatemala Cardinal Mario Casariego y Acevedo, who died of a heart attack in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 15, 1983. The Cardinal maintained close relations with many political and military officials and was considered to be an ally of the authoritarian state regime.
Subject: Central America; Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Military; Funerals; Mario Casariego y Acevedo
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0106_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96955
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral Ceremony For Mario Casariego Y Acevedo In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-06-17
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Dignitaries attend the funeral ceremony for Mario Casariego y Acevedo, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Guatemala, who died of a heart attack two days prior in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 17, 1983. The Cardinal maintained close relations with many political and military officials and was considered to be an ally of the authoritarian state regime.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Funerals; Mario Casariego y Acevedo
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0116_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96841
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral Ceremony For Mario Casariego Y Acevedo In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-06-17
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Members of the Knights of Columbus in formal dress attend the funeral ceremony for Mario Casariego y Acevedo, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Guatemala, who died of a heart attack two days prior in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 17, 1983. The Cardinal maintained close relations with many political and military officials and was considered to be an ally of the authoritarian state regime.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Funerals; Mario Casariego y Acevedo
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0117_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96842
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral Ceremony For Mario Casariego Y Acevedo In Guatemala City
Date: 1983-06-17
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Members of the Knights of Columbus in formal dress attend the funeral ceremony for Mario Casariego y Acevedo, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Guatemala, who died of a heart attack two days prior in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 17, 1983. The Cardinal maintained close relations with many political and military officials and was considered to be an ally of the authoritarian state regime.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Religion; Roman Catholic Church; Funerals; Mario Casariego y Acevedo
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0118_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96843
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Funeral Procession For ARENA Member
Date: 1982-03-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: View of mourners in a funeral procession for a member of the political party Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, National Republican Alliance, ARENA, who was killed during the 1982 campaign for presidential elections, central El Salvador, March 1, 1982. ARENA was founded in 1981 from a convergence of the landowning oligarchy and the extreme anti-communist right. The party received formative support from Guatemala’s fascist ultra-right political party Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, National Liberation Movement, MLN, and from influential members of the Republican party of the United States. Founding member and party leader Roberto D’Aubuisson was known to have close ties to the death squads and had a reputation for extreme violence.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Politics; Government; Elections; Funerals; Death squads; Human rights violations; Right-wing extremists; Oligarchy; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0018_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96485
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: In Celebration of and in Thanksgiving for the Life of W. Dennis Grubb : April 6, 1941–October 25, 2021
Date: 2021-11-16
Publisher: Washington National Cathedral (Washington, DC)
Description: Funeral program for W. Dennis Grubb, Washington National Cathedral, November 16, 2021. Mr. Grubb was one of the first and youngest participants in the US Peace Corps, beginning his service in Colombia in 1961.
Subject: Funerals
Country: United States
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0002
Type: funeral ceremonies
Collection: W. Dennis Grubb Collection, Friends of Colombia Archive
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Memorial service for W. Dennis Grubb, Washington National Cathedral, November 16, 2021
Date: 2021-11-22
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: This video shows the funeral service for former Peace Corps Volunteer W. Dennis Grubb, which took place at the Washington National Cathedral on November 16th, 2021. W. Dennis Grubb began serving in the Peace Corps at age 19 in 1961, shortly after the program was launched by then-President John F. Kennedy, Jr. Stills of the Cathedral's ceilings, stone carvings, and stained glass windows are shown throughout the first minutes of the service while an organ plays in the background. The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope, Provost of the National Cathedral, presided over the service. Journalist Maureen Orth, activist and philanthropist Timothy Shriver, Suleiman Vasti, and the Rev. Cope gave eulogies of Mr. Grubb in celebration and remembrance.
Subject: Funerals; Volunteers -- Colombia
Country: United States
Subject -- Personal Name: Cope, Jan Naylor; Orth, Maureen; Shriver, Timothy
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0001
Type: memorial services
Collection: W. Dennis Grubb Collection, Friends of Colombia Archive
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

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