LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

George Pritchard on Rainbow Warrior verdict

Genre

Interview

TX Date

22 Nov 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:06:06

Description

Greenpeace spokesman George Pritchard talks about the 10-year sentence given to the two people charged with sinking the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace ship bombed by French agents, in New Zealand, killing Fernando Pereira. He expresses his wish that France will apologise and bring more of those responsible to trial. He also hopes that France and other countries will stop testing nuclear weapons, comments on the event’s effects on Greenpeace, and passes on his condolences to the dead man’s family. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Kevin Murphy).

Contributors

Kevin Murphy?; George Pritchard

Keywords

New Zealand; France; Nuclear disarmament; Trials; Anti-nuclear movements; Greenpeace; Nuclear safety; Ships; Sentencing; Fernando Pereira; Rainbow Warrior; Verdicts; George Pritchard

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