Ex-policeman tells of Bloody Sunday shooting

A retired Scottish police superintendent who witnessed Bloody Sunday from the walls of Derry today described hearing two long bursts of automatic gunfire before troops opened up with rifles.

Ex-policeman tells of Bloody Sunday shooting

A retired Scottish police superintendent who witnessed Bloody Sunday from the walls of Derry today described hearing two long bursts of automatic gunfire before troops opened up with rifles.

Samuel McGonigle said rioters throwing stones in the Bogside district beneath him were unperturbed by the sub-machine-gun shooting and treated it as ‘‘friendly fire’’.

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