Project 2: “Moment in Time” facts

For your Moment in Time performance, you need to gather real facts about your selected event from at least 2 sources (One of
which is a reliable source).
Please fill the template with the facts you collected. You do not have to write a summary, you can just copy and paste the facts you
find most important to your event.

Facts collected Author and Source link

date
Source 1 Fact 1: The British government shot 26 unarmed Tom https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2711727/bloody-
civilians in the Bogside area of Derry, County Gillespie, sunday-1972-londonderry-troubles-northern-
Londonderry, as they protested against 4th April ireland/
internment - whereby suspected IRA terrorists 2018
were locked up without trial.

Fact 2: Thirteen victims were killed outright by

the shooting while another died of his injuries
four months later.

Fact 3: The march had been organized by the

Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and the
Northern Resistance Movement.

Fact 4: The march set off at roughly 2.45pm on

Sunday, January 30, and was made up of
between 10,000 and 15,000 people.

Fact 5: The widely-discredited Widgery Tribunal

took place soon after Bloody Sunday.
Baron John Widgery heard testimony from
paratroopers who claimed they were shot at
first.
The marchers maintained nobody was armed.
 Widgery came out on the side of the British Army
and this was accepted by the UK Government
and Northern Ireland's unionists.

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