Events of The Day
Many details of the day's events are in dispute, with no agreement even on the number of marchers present that day. The organisers, "Insight", claimed that there were 30,000 marchers; Lord Widgery, in his now discredited tribunal, said that there were only 3,000 to 5,000. In The Road To Bloody Sunday, local GP Dr. Raymond McClean estimated the crowd as 15,000, which is the figure that was used by Bernadette Devlin McAliskey in Parliament.
Numerous books and articles have been written and documentary films have been made on the subject.
Read more about this topic: Bloody Sunday (1972)
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