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White handkerchief and a Derry play tell Bloody Sunday story Father Edward Daly waves a blood-soaked white handkerchief as he escorts a mortally-wounded protester, 17-year-old Jackie Duddy, during the Bloody Sunday massacre that rocked the Northern Irish city of Derry on this day in 1972. This clash between demonstrators for Irish independence and the ruling British government saw soldiers kill 13 protesters and wound another 15.⁠ ⁠ In the aftermath, Daly insisted that the protesters were unarmed and posing no direct threat, contrary to the British government's official stance that the soldiers were blameless and merely defending themselves after being provoked. But Daly refused to back down, characterizing Duddy's murder as "a young fella who was posing no threat to anybody being shot dead unjustifiably." Eventually, Daly's account was proven to be the truth and Bloody Sunday would go down as one of the most brutal civilian massacres in modern history. For almost...