FULTON– On Jan. 30, 1965, Winston Churchill's favorite song, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” was a central feature in his funeral service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Fifty years later, the ...

The pallbearers—Churchill’s old wartime colleagues and chiefs of staff—moved quietly to their seats. As the regular, short Anglican funeral service proceeded, the first hymn to be sung was John Bunyan ...

Anyone reading this knows where he was on September 11, 2001. A diminishing number remember where they were on January 30, 1965—the day we said farewell to Winston Churchill. (He died fifty years ago, ...

As Winston Churchill made his final journey through the heart of London 50 years ago the crowds stood ten deep, silently weeping. The wartime leader’s coffin had been loaded onto a barge following his ...

During World War, Winston Churchill brought the people of the United Kingdom together. And after his death, huge crowds gathered to watch as his coffin processed through London to St. Paul's Cathedral ...

AFP attributed the intensity of the festivities to Churchill serving as a "reminder of a faded age of [Britian's] global influence." As Reuters explains, the 1965 funeral for the World War II leader ...

When Winston Churchill died 50 years ago at the age of 90, a million people lined the streets of London to watch the funeral cortege pass by. The man who led Britain to victory against Nazi Germany ...

For 12 years, punctilious British bureaucrats had everything needed for a state funeral befitting Sir Winston Churchill’s stature as the kingdom’s World War II leader except the statesman’s dead body ...

The wartime prime minister died on 24 January 1965 aged 90. He was buried six days later after a full state funeral - the only commoner of the 20th century to be accorded such an honour. Here are some ...