John Taylor, an anti-O'Neill official Unionist candidate in South Tyrone, is critical of the civil rights campaign for having "many out-and-out republicans and anti-partitionists" within the movement.

Taylor mentions five measures of reform required of the movement.

A RTÉ News report in which John Taylor criticises the Civil Rights Movement broadcast on 20 February 1969.

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