Thousands line streets for politicians funeral procession

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(22 Dec 2004) • • Night shots • 1. Casket carrying Fernando Poe Junior being brought out of Santo Domingo church • 2. Crowd chanting FPJ, FPJ! • 3. Wide shot of crowd during funeral procession • 4. Horse-drawn carriage carrying Poe's casket surrounded by crowd during funeral procession • 5. Wide of crowd during funeral march • Day shots • 6. Crowd surrounding casket during funeral march • 7. Top shot of crowd • 8. Woman holding up placard reading President of the Philippines, His Excellency, Fernando Poe Jr • 9. Huge crowd surrounding casket during march, zoom in to casket mounted on carriage, pan of crowd chanting FPJ • 10. Various of funeral procession • 11. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Emelinda Diamante, Vox pop: • It hurts. • (Question: Why? ) • Because he is gone now and many poor people had pinned their hopes on him. • 12. Various of crowd chanting FPJ • • STORYLINE: • • Tens of thousands of Filipinos poured onto the streets of Manila early on Wednesday to bid farewell to Fernando Poe Junior, the actor-turned-presidential candidate who came to symbolise the aspirations of the country's poor. • • Security was tight as a horse-drawn hearse with Poe's coffin snaked its way through the capital's major thoroughfares at dawn. • • Hundreds of police kept watch as crowds chanted the actor's name and waved posters and national flags. • • Poe was buried later on Wednesday at Manila's North Cemetery, next to his parents and brother. • • His widow, actress Susan Roces, asked mourners not to turn the funeral into a political event. • • Hours earlier, former President Joseph Estrada, another actor and Poe's close friend who was ousted in massive anti-corruption rallies in 2001, addressed a packed Santo Domingo Church, where Poe's body was displayed in a glass-covered coffin. • • Poe had hoped to get elected as Estrada did, by merging his movie stardom with promises of a better life for the legions of disenfranchised. • • 65-year-old Poe died of a stroke last week without conceding May's presidential election. • • His supporters still contend they were cheated by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. • • Two months after the election, Poe asked the Supreme Court to nullify Arroyo's victory, accusing the president of electoral fraud. • • Arroyo's camp denied any wrongdoing. • • A veteran of more than 200 films, one of Poe's best-remembered screen roles was in the true story of a teacher who became a rebel leader in the 1920s, when the Philippines was still a US colony. • • He was a five-time winner of the Philippine version of the Oscars. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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