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Manifestor_of_Light

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Tue Dec 8, 2015, 12:25 AM

Dec 2015

the movie In The Name of the Father, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Emma Thompson is about the Guildford Four bombing of a pub. The government had withheld exculpatory evidence. And allegedly the cops tortured them to get confessions. They were convicted in 1975. Later they were exonerated and released from prison after serving 15 years.

At the end of the movie it states what happened to the perps. Turns out that one of Bobby Kennedy's daughters married Paul Hill, one of the Guildford Four. The Guildford Four were not part of the provisional IRA. I thought that was interesting about the Irish Catholic connection with the Kennedys.

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