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ee Bhan tm ia + wh tinh matin, UNENOWN SUBJECTS; BOMBING OF 16TH STREET CHURCH SEPTEMBER 15, 1963 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA "On Docena Road, the two boys on the bicycle were approached by a red motorbike which was decorated with Confederate Stickers and carrying two white youths. One of the youths pulled out a pistol and fired twice. Virgil Ware fell off the bike, fatally wounded, "Two whits youths, Lee Farley and Larry Joe Sims, both 16, have been charged with murder and bound over to a Birmingham Grand Jury that will convene Monday. "Tom Olson read about the shooting in the papers and wrote his friend a consoling letter. Here is Wee Will's reply: “*Hi, Tom, "'Things are really going bed for me down here. Virgil, my brother's funeral will possibly be Sunday. "The newspapers don't give a complete rundown of what's going on around here. Our. darling Governor has caused so much trouble, until I am about ready to leave this place. But I figure this is what he wants. All of the Negroes to leave Ala. (the nut). "'PHE LITTLE girl Denise McNair was my next door neighbor's niece, As you know she was one of the girls who was killed in the bombing of the 16th St. Bapt. Church. "tI'ye been in school since the beginning of the semester but is quite hard to study with the fear that engulfs B'ham. We have a fire drill almost every morning because of a bomb threat. -2—