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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11

69 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 69 pages OCR'd
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FD-350 (4-3-62) c (Mount Clipping in Space Below chur bombing “Four dead. Two shootings. Two more dead. Three fires. , grocery at. Fourth “Street and Rocks: ‘and bricks. thrown at ears and people Gun: : 10th Avene Nocth,” ‘a store ‘at. Smashed glass. Injuries, injuries, Inpubias. “" 985, ‘Third Street North, at 1¢th ngham was a terrified city | -Mr. and Mrs. Ralpl ., ot Avenue and 24th Street’and 16th. May, « ‘the measure of tis f dge Road, are treated and_ Street" “and “th Avenile, North,; lected tersely, factually, | con released for -Superticial cuts” ‘at and, ‘at a supermarket at “Lith, antly by ‘the police radio, _ - ‘«\East End Hospital’ Ritchie says , ‘Avenue and Sixth Street North. “they were ambushed by a’ shot- > | “Rock. éails canie™, From” “1609 ‘gun as they drove on the Hult oath St. SW, near. ft Eimwood -|man- Tarrant, Road, * one:} alt, Chapel, 26th Street id * Ciair- xteenth Street Baptist Shure ie west of ‘Huftman, “er57 iment Avenue, Bight - we ‘and id been bombed. ot | Negro Bernard Talley, 12, has | Graymont, 985 Third St. North, : Nat until 2:40 a.m, Monday a gunshot wound dressed at Hil- ‘10th. Avenue Southwest, Third j as a calming word passed over man Emergency, and is re- ' Avenue and 18th. Street - “South, e radio: “Tell 43 to go to sleep. Jeased. He lives at 326 Second | and dozens ol of” other areas. - shields. * ome .. Windows are splintered ‘at a a THE TERROR STRUCK at | a.m., with the call that. ad or 4 hours and 18 minutes it ‘bble in its awfulness. -¢—-WHITES HIT by. rocks and bricks; taken to University Hos- pital. mergency quarters there are fa a nightmare with the dead . ‘and injured Negroes ‘from. the: ‘church when the new- vietims i i begin arriving, i Mrs. ‘Helon Salter, $4, is ad. : Titted‘ with a head concussion and lacerations, A. thrown brick’ hit her inside a car. Her address: fs 150 Brook Lane Drive.’. bruise and released, MRS. POLLY ALLEN: “poney. ooning from Chicage, with her; husband, Michael, is rock-woutt@and also releaged.. fold a story unreal and Tn LACORS OF have dressed at hospitals tbroughout On. wy rat “pounding the: “Me: ay ai P87-04p.m., avons ee and ‘Sst, Steoco-Besley, vacant, hodige. ss Sea [SONS mingx_~eainids the city, The hectic afternoo —A Negr. man is ‘shot, . 800. block . of | 26th Street; ‘the | police radio’ says. He. is James Robinson, 16. He is ‘dead on ar- rival. at University Hospital, He was: throwing - Tock. and | Fan. from police. A NEGRO BOY, 13, y Now, night, | ig: The fires. start. oe : epine’ and” toon dg, Tadic af 2; 40. ‘OTHER, PER-/ KING : arrives ‘by pate ‘about, 9° the: “tadio'. “follows movements ‘of a caravan com- ing into town. “at a high rate. of fspeed.” 0 oe GP p een Another convoy ot. cars, “pear. th fing out-of-state licenses,’ heads | toward Birmingham on Dv. 8.31 North: bout ; 10:36 ?p.m.; troopers move to check ‘them : Time moves. toward midnight, and gradually . the . ‘Tadio ° grows more ‘quief,--more routine. yee “Officers © check “> én - “armed | whites’ and ‘Negroes in: various is shot TAEAS to. ‘death ‘ on Sandusky Road, James R. Slimp, 51, 329 25th epee police radio says. 2 St. SW, is treated for a ‘brick: shooting reportedly was done by’ . uz. two white boys . on a red motor: scooter. - Ware, — neighborhogds., “Gunfire 18 report juries,” coe at i = PTt ig” now Mon morning. - Most. of the. city.” tis uneasily. ell 43 to “go. to: sleep," says‘ wat ar . body... else has," {Indicate page, name of newspaper, cily and state.) _g THE BIRMUNGHAY MEWS THE BIRMENGHAM POST -HLEKALD BIRMINGILIM, ATLAGANA Ediuon: phy STAR PINAL Authot: Title: BAPROME c . nied Churacter: BE or Classification: Submitting Office:
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