Running Home From School, He Was Shot by a Soldier and Blinded for Life (2024)

Free Derry Corner in Derry's Bogside neighborhood in 1972.

Moore (left) was a soccer fanatic early on. Here he plays with his brother Noel (right) in their yard in Malin Gardens, Derry in 1968.

A surveillance Land Rover carrying soldiers patrols the Creggan Estate in Derry, Northern Ireland, 1970.

Moore with his parents in Boston, Mass., where they traveled in the hope of restoring his eyesight in January 1973. The rubber bullet that blinded him sits on the table in front of them.

Plastic and rubber bullets on display in a museum in Belfast.

A 38mm rubber bullet gun on display at Littledean Jail in Littledean, U.K.

A portrait of Emma Groves after she was blinded by a rubber bullet, taken for a poster produced by the United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets.

British Army soldiers stand off with a crowd in the streets of Derry in the 1970s.

A circa-1981 poster titled "The Republican Movement" commemorates the plastic bullet deaths of Julie Livingstone and Carol-Ann Kelly.

Two boys walk past the wall with the painted slogan "Twenty years on and still killing our children" on Ballymoney Street in Belfast in 1989. Seamus Duffy, a 15-year-old who was killed by a plastic bullet, lived nearby.

A pall of smoke pours from a burning building during race riots in the Detroit in 1967.

Pallbearers carry the tiny casket of four-year-old Tanya Blanding, a victim of Detroit's riots on August 1, 1967. Blanding was killed when a hail of police and National Guard bullets swept an apartment building where she huddled on the floor.

National Guard in the streets after the 1967 Detroit riots.

Above: A law enforcement officer stands watch during anti-war demonstrations on December 1, 1970 in San Francisco. Below: The officer holds a prototype MB Associates Stun-Gun, the first time the weapon was used in a law enforcement setting.

A page from the 1976 U.S. Army report titled "Riot Control Without Bloodshed."

Demonstrators at 1999's World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle were met with heavily armored police armed with less-lethal weapons.

Protesters demonstrate following the shooting death of Aaron Campbell in Portland, Ore. in 2010.

The pastor of St. Johns Church hugs Victoria Snelgroves parents, Richard and Diane Snelgrove, after their daughter's funeral service in East Bridgewater, Mass. in October 2004.

Boston Police officers outside of Fenway Park after Boston won the 2004 American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees. The officers are armed with FN303 pepper ball guns, less-lethal weapons that killed bystander Victoria Snelgrove that night.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams holds up a rubber bullet during a speech to the American Irish Historical Society in New York, May 1998.

Richard Moore, photographed in the summer of 1972, soon after he was blinded.

Moore with his wife, Rita, and their daughters, Naoimh and Enya, at his 40th birthday party in Derry, July 2001.

The Dali Lama, Richard Moore, and Charles Innes meeting in Derry in 2007.

The Dalai Lama holds Richard Moore's hand as he gives a talk about compassion to celebrate 20 years of Moore's Children in Crossfire initiative on September 10, 2017 in Derry, Northern Ireland.