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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11
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Blasts Here Continuing - “| fitngham sFol
state investigators. arrested two persons in connec-, :'He said:
irmingham, bombings, “Gov. George Wallace’ lies Dep
in Montgomery last night. _ing about any ‘arrests being i
Shortly before i a.m. today, Wallace released this, minent’ in the bombing. Any such:
Pe he | ‘announcement comes as a com:
Be State investigators have taken into. kW End plete Surprise to zme."” 265
“Rothe two persons int sl) delfetson “County” Sherif a
‘with the Bi ; : Bai
A ernot’s office Wg : ong, Wi sue
ns identities“are be.| were: ™m “contacting” Wa al ad i ity inves a fe Sue ie
o” withheld in the interest! lace at the maasion by telephone. reacted for’ ‘comment, but un-
ao continuing investi a Newsmen - said state photogra- ‘official Sources“from Sheriffts. of:
yp g ga- phers ‘were ’sétfing’ ap “movielfice Said that the statement was
En: equipment at the governor's of- news to them.”. + bh.
$51 Jones, Governor Wallace's fice, indicating! that the governor} FRI “experts
press. secretary, said he could notl,.< coming into his office fom Vtect , °
whether the two persons . were > wreckage of the church deter
the mansion shortly. oN, 1
ite ‘or. Negro; where they were ‘The anriouncement puzzled tical mined asernent of the bailing,
w enforcement officers, who It went off when about 400 ‘Ne.
said they knew nothing of it, or groes weré in the building.
did not comment. _at ail. Tt tourhed aff sporadic
Al: Lingo, ' Wallace's. Publi¢| hat fasted far into the nig :
Safety Director, was Tegisteredjtert two more Negro youths ‘dead. .
at: the St.” Francis Motel in Bir- Negro leaders, headed by the’
mingham, _but_ his room did not Rev Martin Luther King Jr.
answer. hs. : -* Jealled for restraint from Negroes _
ier oe a, governeps Te were’ “reports, uncon- and troops from the Federal: gov- '
* . ‘Eeiminent’ '< Tfirmed, that the persons, were be- érhment after. ‘the! bombing: They .
fiortly after 8:30 p.m. last 18 held at Kilby Prisoit in’ Mont-jelaimed ‘there had been
x “the” governor's gffice ae gomery but prison officials* said down. of Taw: apd ‘order.: Sgemad
igabed ‘the. word that an. ‘arrest they bad ‘no knowledge of anyone! _ Negro “and ‘civic’ ‘leaders’ from
Fi @ bombing. case was “imi being héld there in connection Birmingham rushed “to meetings
nent. ” with the bombing. renee 2 with President Kennedy following
the bombing. AS a result, Ken»
nedy sent in former, ‘Army Foot:
ball Coach Earl (Red) Blaik and
former .Army ,Secretary Kenneth |
Royall ‘to ‘try ‘to help: hegotiate
their differences. . 3..." “hk
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Jones said he could not reveal
ich state’ investigators ‘had
made the arrests, or any infor
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2T They said that an arrest” would ane governor "5 staremen it did
be made “within a few hours,” nat maké clear whether the. per-
and intimated that the arrest sons were being ‘held in connection
ould come. iast Right, at some witht, the, bombing _ of ‘the | _ 26th
“1Stréet ‘Baptist’ Churéh.- 7 ay
e hours dragged awa tow. ‘4 The announcement could have
ag os zee! ove vy ward referréd to any of a r , ae a one |
tthe” Poverhér’s ‘office, in Mont- bombings here; “the than ‘20 ‘in Birming am ‘since i
gomery. "tombing of Atty. Arthur Shores" 1957, ad a8. fhe first b to take a.|
A ‘group of newsmen met thathome, the A. G. ‘Gaston Motel last j life. latest: bombing “came .;
yernor, as. he flew into, the air May, ora: bémbing Gide Bigis: Sfmbn tees Off in. te |
ee “at Montgomery,” comin: 's Southside last“week” 250% earl julie. the ba ct;
oral "bare
: b- -
from-,a_-speech-making - trip tol a8 oy
ekgonville, Fla, 0.9 ben S hos attr ae, crow Oh
‘peksonvl would not comment ial Be ee olde’ mie ie i
the arrest at this time. He left, ta o 6, BOs BE DE
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mb, exploded rea Tew. eel SaaS
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