Gail Sheehy march and as British soldiers moved in when the boy was struck in the face by a bullet. That day, January 30, 1972, became known as Bloody Sunday or the Bogside Massacre. Sheehy was trapped inside a Catholic ghetto which was under the authority of the IRA. She made her escape in a car over pastureland to Dublin. There Sheehy traveled to several safe houses and interviewed Rita O'Hare. The whole experience affected Sheehy deeply and on her return to the States she had a difficult time writing the story and developed a fear of airplanes which she later described
Massacre at Ywahoo Falls and other Indians from the state. Doubt has been expressed as to whether the massacre ever actually occurred. There are apparently no contemporary records that document (or even mention) the massacre, nor any that record the existence of a "Princess Cornblossom" (not to mention that no such title as "Princess" ever existed among the Cherokee). Though the story is recorded as Cherokee oral history, it is unlikely that such an event could have gone completely undocumented, and no evidence has been found. The first written record of Cornblossom seems to occur in 1958 in a publication called "Legion of the