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Birmingham, Alabama Sixteenth — Part 7

249 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Sep 15, 1963 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Birmingham, Alabama Sixteenth · 249 pages OCR'd
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Gctober 3, 1963 UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; BOMRING OF 16TH STREET CHURCH SEPTSMBER 15, 1963 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA The following article appeared in the “Minneapolis Morning Tribune" fcr Thursday, October 3, 1963: “LETTESR TO RICHFIELD BOY Negro Tells of Brother 's Slaying “One day ee ae 7a letter from _James. (Wee Will}-Ware, 16-year-old Birmingham, m, Ala.,; yo ty Negro, arrived in Richfield. YY Nd ib al ad! a "It was addressed to 2 row auson, 6939. 4th a _Av._S., a junior at Richfield Wgh School, The “pair became friends this summer when both were . . delegates at a national Hi-Y conference at 4 St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn. "On Sept. 15, Wee Will was pedaling his bicycle along a street with his brother, Virgil, 13, sitting on the handlebars. "Birmingham was tense, because of the bombing earlier of a Negro church, where four girls were killed: Denise McNair, 11; Carol Robertson, 14; Cynthia Wesley, 14, and Addie Mae Collins, 14, This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. .
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