New documentary reveals how three workers from East Kilbride grounded Chile tyrant General Pinochet'
New documentary reveals how three workers from East Kilbride grounded Chile tyrant General Pinochet's jets of destruction
08:14, 9 May 2015
By Anna Burnside
FILMMAKER Felipe Bustos Sierra tells how trade unionists Bob Fulton, Robert Somerville and John Keenan took a stand against the military regime in South America.
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General Pinochet and the Hawker Hunter jets he used to help stage his military coup in Chile
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FROM a distance, Bob Fulton, Robert Somerville and John Keenan bear a strong resemblance to Jack and Victor from Still Game.
Bob is 92, Robert 78 and John 75. But these auld fellas in bunnets and zip-up jackets are folk heroes in South America.
They have already been the subject of a short film and director Felipe Bustos Sierra is raising cash to make it a feature-length documentary.
In 1973, the trio worked in the Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride.
They watched the coup in Chile on TV and were horrified as general Augusto Pinochet’s fighter planes bombed president Salvador Allende out of the royal palace.
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