Description: This reel an interview with the dog's handler. This is reel 1 of 2. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "...Silas, the german shepard attached to the Plymouth County Sheriff's office...is buried in Foxboro with full military honors" after dying in the line of duty.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/17/1978
Description: Footage of the funeral. Officers and police dogs marching into the cemetery. People gathered around the grave. A coffin is lowered into the ground. The officers and police dogs march out of the graveyard. A young girl places a flower on the grave and reel ends with a close-up of the gravestone. This is edited footage with wild sound. This is reel 2 of 2. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "...Silas, the german shepard attached to the Plymouth County Sheriff's office...is buried in Foxboro with full military honors" after dying in the line of duty.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/17/1978