Learning on ScreenHillsborough disaster - Fan’s recollections
- Title
- Hillsborough disaster - Fan’s recollections
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 18 Apr 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:01:14
- Description
- Michael Thompson, a Liverpool supporter who experienced the Hillsborough Stadium disaster, recalls how a man died in his arms and a boy died in his father’s arms, and how he screamed at police to help him out of the stand and to help the other supporters. Interviewer not heard. Extracted from a longer interview, catalogued separately.
- Contributors
- Michael Thompson
- Keywords
- Deaths; Sport; Police; Association football; Policing practice; Safety; Football stadiums; Disasters (events); Hillsborough Stadium disaster (1989); South Yorkshire Police; Michael Thompson; Richard Thompson (Liverpool FC fan)
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LBC/IRN, "Hillsborough disaster - Fan’s recollections". http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/0029a00359004 (Accessed 19 May 2024)
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