Reply to "Remembering Michael Forde - July 17, 1964"

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Thanks for posting this recollection, Miss Haniffa. I remember Friday July 17, 1964 very well. It was supposed to be my last day at Central High School but I had already gotten my school report so I didn't bother to go there. I was staying at my uncle's home in Princess Street near Cemetery Road. Even from that distance, I heard the explosion and another bomb blast a few minutes after. Michael Forde was killed at the Progressive Bookshop in Robb Street. The other blast occurred at the PPP-run GIMPEX store in Regent Street and killed a security guard named Griffith. It is fitting that the PPP remember Michael Forde year after year but I don't know why the party doesn't mark Griffith's death too.

7/17/166:33 PM

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