Anniversary Of Civil Rights March
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Today is the twentieth anniversary of the Derry Civil Rights March that sparked off events that led to the present continuing violence in the North. The march was broken up in a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) baton charge, setting off a twenty year cycle of violence that has brought three thousand deaths and thirty thousand injuries.

Report shows archival footage of Derry Civil Rights March on 5 October 1968.

To camera Pat Sweeney in front of RTÉ monitors.

Interview with Eamon Hayes, the sound man who recorded the original footage, and who is now Head of Production Planning, on the events of that day and RTE's coverage.

The reporter is Pat Sweeney.