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195 results found for '"Sieges"' in Keywords.
Balcombe Street siege (1975)
- Genre
- News report
Breaking news of the lifting of the six day Balcombe Street siege in Marylebone, London, as four IRA gunmen are taken out under armed cover and driven away to Brixton police station. Jon Snow reports from...
Balcombe Street Siege - Gunmen surrender (1975)
- Genre
- News report
Jon Snow reports on the end of the Balcombe Street Siege (06/12 to 12/12/75), in which four IRA members had taken a flat’s two residents, John and Sheila Matthews, captive. Includes a detailed account of...
Unfair dismissal case - Sheila Matthews wins out-of-court settlement (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Sheila Matthews, who won an out-of-court settlement (04/10/76?) for unfair dismissal by her employer, McCulloch and Wallis, a wholesale drapery firm. Mrs Matthews had previously (12/75) been...
Balcombe Street siege (1977)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Peter Spencer reports on the IRA Balcombe Street siege (1975) and other terrorist attacks by the organisation after the end of the resulting trial in 1977. Interviews with Edward Heath MP (by Julian Manyon);...
Balcombe Street siege (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Jill Lourie interviews Sheila and John Matthews, hostages in the IRA Balcombe Street siege (1975) after the end of the resulting court case in 1977; about their memories of the event and how they hate the...
Washington DC siege (1977)
- Genre
- Speech
Haamas Abdul Khaalis, Hanafi Muslim terrorist leader, makes his demands to the authorities in Washington DC on 9/3/77. The terrorists seized 100 hostages in three buildings and threatened to behead them...
Washington DC siege (1977)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Pye Chamberlayne reports on the end of the siege in Washington DC on 11/3/77. The terrorists led by Hanafi muslim Haamas Abdul Khaalis, seized 100 hostages in three buildings and threatened to behead them...
Netherlands sieges (1977)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Ric Davies reports on demands of South Moluccan terrorists in the school and train sieges in the Netherlands (from South Moluccan Islands in Indonesia, former Dutch colony); the tense situation at the...
Netherlands siege (1977)
- Genre
- News report
Ric Davies for the mid-day report on release of the last of the schoolchildren from the school held under siege by South Moluccans in the Netherlands (from South Moluccan Islands in Indonesia, former Dutch...
Netherlands sieges (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Ric Davies who reported from the scene of the school siege by South Moluccans in the Netherlands speaks to Alan Clark on the release of the schoolchildren. Emotions were running high. Also speaks about press...