Bloody Sunday Page #8

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Who done it?

The Army shot him.

They shot an old man...

Damien, are you all right?

Can you hear me, Damien?

The bastards.

Jesus Christ, a man's been shot.

Bastards shot my cousin.

I can't believe

they shot me cousin.

The boys are going in!

I can't believe

they shot me cousin.

The boys are going in.

They shot the old man!

Five-Six Bravo,

confirm your situation.

What were the rounds

we just heard? Over.

Okay, sir, the O.P. Has

just fired five rounds.

I think it was nail bombs

or shooting.

They're getting a lot of aggro.

They got a lot of crowd.

They're firing baton rounds,

too.

That's one incoming!

Get down off the wall.

We've just had one round

across the guards

at the wall, sir.

What the hell are you doing?!

They shot the old man!

It's unauthorized,

for Christ's sake.

Get the car here!

Get your hands off me!

Get your hands off me!

They've shot the old man!

They shot the old man.

You f***ing bastard.

There's women and children

out there!

Get your hands off my weapons.

You bastards!

Bastards!

F***ing bastards!

F***ing shot me cousin!

Die, you bastards!

Go on, you bastards!

F***ing shot me cousin.

Go on, bastards!

Brits out! Brits out! Brits out!

I think it's time

for the Paras to go in.

They've got a lot of aggro

just the other side of the wall.

They've got some kids

over there.

Okay.

We should get them

down off that wall.

We're not going

to get across there

if they've got

that wall covered.

- We've got to get out of here.

- Okay...

I don't think we'll get

the Company across safely.

We'll do it with the vehicles.

So, we're gonna ax this totally?

We're not going over the wall?

No, we'll do it in the vehicles.

Support Company in the vehicles,

"A" and "C" on foot.

Change of plan...

we're not going over the wall.

We're gonna go up James Street

through barrier 12

where the Light Air

Defense Regiment is

download at James Street

and do a scoop up with Charlie

Company at Aggro Corner.

We're moving in two minutes.

Inform the O.P. Now

that there's a change of plan.

We're taking the Company

through barrier 12.

Yes, sir.

We're taking the whole Company.

Hello, Zero. This is

Six-Five Sunray speaking.

We've got to go now

on the scoop up

or we're gonna miss them. Over.

Colonel, the lads want to go.

We're ready to go.

Hold on, hold on.

- Who's this?

- Six-Five Para, sir.

Six-Five. No. No, wait.

Yeah, he reckons he can pick up

some of the hooligans

from there. Over.

No, we wait.

Six-Five, tell your Sunray

to wait, hold his position.

F***ing people at Brigade!

All right, tell One and Three

to move forward

to the barriers now, on foot.

We'll go to 12 in the vehicle.

We'll move now.

Okay.

All right, Sergeant Major,

let's move now, let's go!

Hello, Zero, this is

Six-Five Sunray speaking.

We are moving forward

to the barriers now.

We've got to go. Out.

Right. Let's go.

Move! Move it!

Go on!

Move! Get in! Get in!

- Hoods on!

- Yes!

Canisters load!

Check your gear.

Come on!

Let's go!

Hello, Zero, this is Six-Five.

My Sunray has deployed his units

slightly...

On whose authority?

...in preparation for any orders

you might have. Over.

Whose...?

Why have One Para moved?

Six-Five, this is Zero.

Hold your position. Out.

I want to... I want to know

where this has come from, Mike.

It'll be coming

from their Sunray, sir.

Can we tell them

to wait at the barriers

until we give the word?

...some more gas put down

to about a hundred yards

beyond the flats...

- I'll push my way through here.

- Go on, Ivan.

- See you in a bit, okay?

- Ivan, I'll go up, too.

You come up.

I'll see you up there.

- Aye, okay.

- All right, folks.

Let us through there.

Let's hear it,

ladies and gentlemen

a nice round of applause,

please, for, uh...

God Almighty.

Let's go, Sigs.

Mike, go up to the barrier

and tell the gunners

to move it now.

Hello, Zero, this is Six-Five.

We're ready to go now. Over.

- Let's go!

- Let's go!

Oh, f***ing hell.

Come on, let's move.

What are we waiting for?

What are we waiting for?

Come on!

Put your hands together and

give a big warm Derry welcome

to Eamonn McCann...

Bridget Bond...

...have started to thin out.

We need to get over there...

...Bernadette Devlin...

...and a man who really needs

no introduction

so I won't give him one:

Lvan Cooper!

Well, we've marched a long way

together here, folks.

So, I think

I'll get this started.

Look at this f***ing lot.

Just waiting for the off, boys.

It's been a difficult day

but a glorious one

here in Derry.

All of us wending our way

down the hill together.

Men, women and children

marching.

Mrs. Hammer, I haven't seen you

march like that since '68.

But, uh...

let's not forget,

in all this confusion

that we face a choice

as a society.

Not about what we want.

We all know what we want:

Radical change.

The dismantling of Stormont

and an end

to Unionist domination.

Yeah, find out

if call signs One and Three are

in position and ready to move.

Hold in your position.

We are not clear, okay?

Barrier all right?

The choice is

about how we achieve it.

Between violence

and nonviolence.

At where, barrier 12, barrier 14

or at Aggro Corner?

If we are going to give a future

to the children of this city

the young lads up there...

there they are

we all know

they're rioting away there.

They do it every day...

if we are gonna give

those boys there a future

we have to show them

that nonviolence works.

Go on, you scumbags!

Let's get out!

If we don't, it won't be

just stones they're throwing.

Because civil rights

isn't the soft option...

not when the bricks fly

and the police

and the Army batons charge down.

It's not easy keeping

to the nonviolent road

when other people say,

"This isn't working.

Let's get the guns out

and take revenge. "

F***ing shot my cousin!

But if you believe

in the civil rights movement

with all your heart

and your soul, as I do...

Why on earth aren't they

going in?

Hello, Zero, this is Six-Five.

If we don't go now,

we're gonna miss them.

If you believe

in what Gandhi and Martin

Luther King believed in

with a passion, as I do,

then in the end

with one single united march,

we shall overcome.

Thank you.

We're gonna have to go,

aren't we?

Sir, you have as much separation

as you're gonna get.

Yeah. Thank you, Charles.

Thank you.

You cannot send them now.

You've got thousands

of marchers out there

and you've no idea

where they are.

Let me handle this.

Look, you've won,

for God's sake.

You've stopped the march.

You've won.

Don't do it, Patrick.

Don't do it.

Load that battle gun, mate!

Stick one of them rubber bullets

straight into 'em

when we get out there.

Come on, come on.

Six-Five wishing to move now,

sir.

Yes, thank you.

...will be seen today,

disbursed with the crowd.

Michael...

Ladies and gentlemen,

Bernadette Devlin.

We are a part of a worldwide

movement for civil freedoms.

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