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. * oFtionat TORKANG. 10 . 5010-106 MAY 1967 EDITION “ey : - Gi4 GEM. REG. WO. ZF — , : = . CP we UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ‘ f pein Casper —_.— Memorandum Ch pitig Evans * _ TO : Mr. Befabye~ DATE: Septem mbar 16, 19623 Rasen ma Sullivan f fy voPss mada by cf nel OF review b —— FROM ss: A. Roken Date Rowe Task Fores Holmes _ pele. nid, y, Gandy SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SU TS Vv BOMBING OF s PREET. BAPT BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 9/15/63 “BOMBING MATTERS ‘ vV¥ At approximately 10:19 a.m., Central Standard Time (CST), 9/1 the 16th Street Baptist Church, located at 16th Street and 6th Avenue, North, Birminghan, Alabama, was bombed. This is a large INegro church in which many pro~integration demonstrations have been Jheld during the past year, 3 , ~ ae ek ' The following individuals are reported to have died in o/*\ || bombing: Carol Robertson, aged 14; Addie Collins, aged 14; Denise/ aged 1N+ Cuwnthia Waatae A 211 Mase Sanna Tae BVA LA g HEC Ary CYDTOLa VOL, y aged iz y ain Negro Females. addition, 16 other persons were injured, consisting of 9 Negro a, He 5 Negro females and 2 white females. : The rear end of the church was badly damaged, A fire jjmarshal in Birmingham estimated that 10 sticks of dynamite had been dropped on the road surface near the church and ignited with a fuse- type igniter, He estimated the damage to the church would run as high as $20,000 to $30,000, Se 3 =x — A full investigation was immediately instituted by zpur > wa Race Office and SAC Raymond L, Faisst promptly receenae ta! A the scene to take charge of our investigation and to coordinate us aes activities with the Birmingham Police Department (PD). “> : . .. Deputy Attorney General Katzenbach, who called Mr<&£vasie fee on 9/15/63 concerning the bombing, was advised that we had initigted og an immediate investigation into the matter and that a Bureaits it Inspector and a special squad of Agents had been sent into Birmingham, Ten Special ‘Agents; two stenographers and five Bureau ars were immediately dispatched to the Birmingham Office from other ffices on special assignment, In addition, SAC Roy Moore of the j #.ittle Rock Office was ‘sent in jtguhead up the investigation, a GQ ee 1 — Mr, Mohr ot 4S foe LORS iL —- Mr, DeLoach / “on seme 1 — Mr, Evans rs So, JCT: ers 0} <a (9) ed Frichosu@£ Ad ‘ee f