Andrew Sage

You could do that?

That's a thing?

So you see the vanguard with all its secrecy at this point in time was operating on information that was not made available to the people.

And the people were pissed at the party now.

The cracks in this political arrangement with essentially a secret society on top were starting to show.

The people, generally speaking, regardless of what the party wanted, wanted Maurice Bishop.

They wanted the boy Maurice Bishop.

but the party was not interested in what people wanted.

The day is 19th of October, 1983.

The pro-Maurice Bishop New Jewel Movement leaders, government ministers, and a mass demonstration of people roll up to Bishop's house to set him free.

There were guards, of course, assigned to keep him in house arrest, but those guards stood down.

They refused to shoot at the people.

So the crowd of people walked to Fort Rupert.

Now, Fort Rupert wasn't always Fort Rupert.

It used to be Fort George.

In fact, after the revolution ended, it again became known as Fort George.

But Fort Rupert was named Fort Rupert after Maurice Bishop's father, who was killed by Eric Geary, as you may recall.

So they get there.

But the majority of the neutral movement, who were, like I said, backers of Bernard Cord, were at another fort nearby.

And boom, three armored trucks pull up from the fort of Cord to Rupert's fort, Fort Rupert.