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In Rights Cases ae he he or Only Under Washington Bureau agents reported the facts to the Copley News Service Department of Justice. In only WASHINGTON — The Federal:five cases was the FBI ordered ‘to investigate. The Birmingham Bureau of Invest gation has been: ‘church blast the latest and : ee urch blast was ates “caught In the middie’ in the! wen ; ‘there FBI men acted immediately “angry protests that have arisen: Bry protest oT because of the fatalities invalved. folowing the fatal Sept. 14 bomo-: ing of a Birmingham, Ala: The other four incideats under church. | FBI study — all in Birmingham girls were killed wy Were the two May 11 bombings « home of the Rev. A. D. W. _ brother of the Rev, Martin: “Luther King: the May 11 blast at the Gaston Motel and the Sept. 4 and Friday it was an- ie F a S __ bombing cf the home of A. D. FBI agents began c Hea of the chureh expis y 1 jurisdiction (under) ts ie) Civil Rights Act) is very; as s orig sinally mited and is not intended to sup twation 18 ae 1 local ard state authority,”) said one source. “At all times it : directiy under instruc- aa Department of Jus- > tds one,” In the indignation over the €x-. 4: , tasion, howexer ‘a number of TXe.!, NO arrests have becn reported P! ane woe in the bombings in Birmingham, | have, ‘but FBI agents have been success- gr and civil rights leacers ecused the FBI of failin to act 6 -ful in a series of investigations involving civil rights violence. in civil rights incidents. Since Tan. 1, 1953, there have been 48 bamb-' | Ar te af ; ches in Alabama, 13 ia Burming- ests were made after inves- h 7 tigation of two Negro church ‘ burnings in 1962 in Terrell Coun- Under the Civil Rights Act of, _ Ga., and another at Leesburg, 190 the FBI cannot investigate: Ga Nine men were arrested after such incidents without direct or FBI investigation of the burming ders from the Department of Jus-' of a Greyhound bus near Anni- tice, regardless of requests for: “ston, Ala., in 1961. The bus was 1 heip from local authorities. icarn iag members of the fongor. | FBI records show that in each, press for Racial Equality on 2 sof eee of the 46 Alabama bombings,, ‘called “Freedom Ride." Page 9 an cyte ~ - isG3 BRAY an DT 4 Joliet Herald- News Joliet, Illinois September 21, 1963 NGHAN