John Major on Cookstown massacre and Peter Brooke
- Title
- John Major on Cookstown massacre and Peter Brooke
- Genre
- Press conference
- TX Date
- Jan 1992
- Year of production
- 1992
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- Duration
- 00:03:19
- Description
- Prime Minister John Major, speaking in Belfast, expresses his admiration for the courage of the people of Belfast. He is asked by reporters about the security situation in the wake of the Cookstown massacre (17/01/92), the conduct of Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke after the bombing, and his (Major’s) failure to visit other parts of Northern Ireland.
- Contributors
- John Major
- Keywords
- Deaths; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; Violence; IRA; Cabinet ministers; Explosions; Resignation (political); Peter Brooke; County Tyrone; Cookstown; Bomb
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