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Where is Jón?

GunPlot: 09 - Fallout

Where is Jón?

RTÉ

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.5717 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

More than 50 years after the Arms Crisis of 1970, the effects echo through to today. There was personal fallout, financial fallout, social fallout and political fallout. It was, and continues to be, the biggest political scandal of modern Ireland.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The only thing I remember is the verdict.

0:04.7

On the 23rd of October, 1970, 10-year-old Sylvia Kelly sat in court, waiting to hear her father's name, Captain James Kelly.

0:17.5

And I remember when the first verdict was announced, I turned to the lady beside me and I said to her,

0:23.4

that means that daddy will be found innocent.

0:26.2

And she turned round and she whispered to me and she said,

0:29.0

Not necessarily.

0:30.8

And I remember waiting to hear his name and holding my breath

0:33.9

until they'd announced he wasn't guilty.

0:38.6

And then, excuse me.

0:42.7

Reporter Frank Kilfeather was in the court too

0:45.1

at the moment when the four men were declared innocent.

0:48.8

All the Hawie supported down at the back of the court

0:51.4

burst into applause and started singing rebel songs.

0:56.0

Immediately was,

0:58.0

Oh, Rasha, the Vaha'u'lli.

1:01.0

And they shouted the rock, and then they ran up the center of the court,

1:08.0

and up to the jury, and started shaking hands with the jury, and clapping them on the back and the court and up to the jury and started shaking hands with the jury and clapping

1:12.5

them on the back and the whole lot. Captain Kelly's sister Teresa was there in the middle of

1:17.7

the Mali in the court too. Charlie High went straight over to the jury and shook hands with

1:25.1

them. Did he? He did, yes.

1:28.8

And that was when Theresa Kelly's brother, Captain Jim Kelly, uttered prophetic words.

1:33.9

He said, you know, it's only starting now, you know.

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