Many Grisham fans will be pleased with Holmes’ succinct adaptation of a beloved chestnut.
In Grisham’s town of Clanton, Miss., where the Klan freely intimidates, father and daughter are black while the confessed perpetrators, and the jury, are white. Their job: to decide whether a bereaved father was justified in executing two men who brutally raped his 12-year-old daughter and left her for dead. “The article stated that an Irish group had reserved a large block of grand stand tickets.”Ī separate file among the documents, dated 1989, pointed out that while the FBI was unaware of any specific threats against the Queen “the possibility of threats against the British monarchy is ever present from the Irish Republican Army (IRA)”.Holmes has turned the novel into a courtroom-dominated exercise and appointed the audience as jurors. “Though the article contained no threats against the president or the Queen, the statements could be viewed as being inflammatory. The file said: “The article stated anti-British feelings are running high as a result of well publicised injustices inflicted on the Birmingham Six by the corrupt English judicial system and the recent rash of brutal murders of unarmed Irish nationalists in the six counties by loyalist death squads. The Queen with the now King, the then Prince of Wales, in 2022 (Jane Barlow/PA) The information came from the Philadelphia Irish paper titled Irish Edition. The file refers to a club which “has a popular reputation as a republican bar that is frequented by sympathisers with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA)”.Īnother document, among more than 100 pages published by the FBI online, this time relating to the Queen’s state visit to the US in 1991, reveals concerns that Irish groups were planning to protest at the monarch’s attendance at a baseball game as well as a White House event. It adds: “This man additionally claimed that he was going to attempt to harm Queen Elizabeth and would do this either by dropping some object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the royal yacht Britannia when it sails underneath, or would attempt to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visited Yosemite National Park.” The Queen Elizabeth during a visit to Glasgow in 1983 (PA) The file states that a phone call was made by “a man who claimed that his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet”. The Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, made an official visit to the west coast of America in February and March 1983. The document, available on the FBI’s online vault, outlines what appears to be intelligence provided to federal agents about a threat to the Queen’s life in California 40 years ago. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh made a visit to the west coast of the United States 40 years ago.Īn FBI file relating to a visit to the United States by the late Queen Elizabeth has revealed a potential plot to assassinate her.
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