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Paul Hill is the name of: Paul Hill (musician) (1934–1999), American music director, founder of the Master Chorale of Washington (formerly the Paul Hill Chorale) Paul Jennings Hill (1954–2003), the murderer of abortion provider John Britton; Paul Hill (Guildford Four) (born 1954), Irish man convicted and later cleared of terrorist offences
Aug 8, 2019 · Paul Hill, the father of the late Saoirse Kennedy Hill, overcame his fears of heights and water to honor his daughter in Hyannis Port. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared the emotional moment on Instagram and remembered Saoirse in a eulogy.
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- Joelle Goldstein
- Paul Hill – The First Man Arrested For The Bombing
- The Trial's Judge Handed Hill A Life Sentence
- An Active Ira Unit Confessed to The Bombings
- Hill Was Moved from Prison to Prison
- Corbyn Campaigned For The Four's Release
- The Pogues Penned Song About The Four
- Soviet Support For The Four Left Thatcher Enraged
- Hill Married Into The Kennedy Family
- An Oscar-Nominated Film Was Released Four Years After The Men's Release
- It Took 26 Years For Them to Receive An Official Apology
Paul Hill was arrested November 29, 1974 his friend Gerry Conlon (pictured above) was arrested November 30 and their old Belfast school mate Paddy Armstrong and his English girlfriend Carole Richardson were arrested on December 3.
At their trial, Paul Hill was given what was, at the time, the longest sentence ever handed down by an English court; life with no chance of parole until great age or infirmity. The judge's chief regret was that he couldn't hang the three men.
In January 1977, an active IRA service unit, nicknamed the Balcombe Street gang, issued a statement in court confessing they carried out the Guildford and Woolwich bombings and that the Four were completely innocent.
Paul Hill was ‘ghosted’ more than 50 times during his 15 years in prison. ‘Ghosted’ is when a prisoner is moved without warning to another prison, usually in the middle of the night.
Jeremy Corbyn was a guest at Paul’s wedding to his American girlfriend inside Long Lartin prison. Corbyn was a tireless campaigner to free the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six. The Sunstory on the morning of the wedding was labelled ‘IRA Pig To Wed’.
The Pogues song, Street Of Sorrow/Birmingham Six, about both the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, was banned under the same legislation used in the late 1980s to stop the broadcast of direct interviews with members of Sinn Fein.
In the late 1980s it was reported that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev brought up the campaign to free the Guildford Four in a private meeting with PM Margaret Thatcher. Maggie was not pleased.
Paul Hill married Courtney Kennedy, daughter of the late Bobby Kennedy and niece of the late John F Kennedy. The couple lived in America and on the west coast of Ireland and have a daughter. They divorced ten years ago.
In The Name Of The Father,the 1993 film made about this miscarriage of justice, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Gerry Conlon and John Lynch as Paul Hill, was nominated for seven Oscars.
The Four would have to wait another 16 years after being freed, until 2005, for an apology; when then PM Tony Blair said sorry to the Four and the Maguire Seven. Update: The play Your Ever Lovingfeatured and won Best play of Edinburgh Fringe 2017 . ** Originally Published on: Apr 11, 2016
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Paul Jennings Hill (February 6, 1954 – September 3, 2003) was an American, minister, religious extremist, and anti-abortion terrorist who murdered physician John Britton and Britton's bodyguard, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Barrett, in 1994. Hill was sentenced to death by lethal injection and was executed on September 3, 2003.
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Aug 2, 2019 · Paul Hill is a former member of the Guildford Four, a group of IRA members falsely convicted of bombing two pubs and killing a soldier in 1974. He married Courtney Kennedy, Robert and Ethel Kennedy's daughter, and had one child, Saoirse Roisin Kennedy Hill, who died at the age of 22. Learn more about his life, his activism and his legacy.
Aug 2, 2019 · Paul Hill is an Irishman who was wrongfully convicted for IRA bombings and the murder of a British soldier, spending 15 years in prison. He is one of the "Guildford Four" who were exonerated by a judge in 1994. He married Courtney Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy's fifth daughter, in 1993 and had a daughter with her.
Apr 12, 2019 · Stefan McCusker stars as Paul Hill in a new short film, Fifteen, about the letters he sent to his family from prison, which screens at the Belfast Film Festival this weekend. This new law gave...
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