Author and former British prisoner, Belfast-born GERRY (pronounced "Jerry") CONLON. In his memoir, "In the Name of the Father," he tells the story of his wrongful conviction and fifteen-year imprisonment by the British Governement for the 1974 terrorist bombings of two pubs near London. He was in prison with his father, Giuseppe, who was also falsely convicted as a co-conspiritor in the bombings
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