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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 ...
- 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
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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
Paul Hill was one of the four men wrongfully convicted of IRA bombings in Guildford in 1974. Learn about his life, marriage, campaign, and the drama based on his letters.
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Paul Hill ist der Name folgender Personen: Paul B. Hill (* 1953), deutscher Sozialwissenschaftler und Hochschullehrer. Paul Michael Hill (* 1954), nordirischer als einer der Guildford Four zu Unrecht Verurteilter. Paul Jennings Hill (1954–2003), amerikanischer Abtreibungsgegner und hingerichteter Mörder.
2. Aug. 2019 · Paul Hill is an Irishman who was wrongfully convicted for IRA bombings and the murder of an ex-soldier, but later exonerated. He is also the former husband of Robert F. Kennedy's daughter, Courtney, and the father of Saoirse Kennedy Hill, who died in 2019.
Paul Jennings Hill (* 6. Februar 1954 ; † 3. September 2003 in Miami , Florida , Vereinigte Staaten ) war ein US-amerikanischer christlicher Extremist, der den Arzt John Britton und dessen Leibwächter James Barrett 1994 ermordete, weil Britton Schwangerschaftsabbrüche durchführte.
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 ...
0:00 / 1:05. Guildford Four Release: Historic Injustice Overturned – Archive Documentary (1989) “I know what democracy is…”. In 1974 Paul Hill was sentenced to life for the Guildford bombings....
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