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FO-350 (4-32-62) city’s, “blackest “day. Blacker en, than the days of the cholera. Bisgue- ‘shortly after Bicming- é rth, when hundreds fell. pr, t s day of wrath and warn-) Etollowed. a day of murder: | r most black, most repre-, le, most sickening. Four! it.children lay dead, man- y 10 sticks of dynamite. ND THERE ‘WERE some who! ed God to have “mercy on, the | OF those who perpetrated, “"blackguardly deed, this! bombing of a church. where chil-| Gren in their fresh dresses and Beat suits prayed. fen, women and “children Spaused a minute to pray under ' gihe. bright sky of Seplember on, Stenographers paused al “their typewriters. .Execulives ae dictalion. Housewives “rave out from theimshares, at. goss and, women in parked cars -bowed their heads. “On the street. shoppers and: lunch- -goers paused, many under. the pretense of window-gazing. to: offer a Silent pr ayer. In restau- ' rants atid cafeteria tines, they? quietly prayer, while others went into churches. | YOU MAY NOT have realized. they were praying. There was nothing ostentatious about it. Most] prayed, as Christ advised, in se- oret. Some prayed as they: Walked, ; And the church bells tolled. .And as sad chimes floated over ‘the city, some, perhaps, thought .of the words of the English poet - John Donne, “Neyer send to know for whom the bel] tells; it + ttolls for thee.”... “Any man’s ‘death diminishes me because | am involved in mankind.” .. | “The. city, prayed for 60 seconds at nODN A in response to an appeal (Mount <lipring in Space Below) t = 5, hc cLLY, a {Indic ste page, name of newspaper, city and state.] _gTHE BIRMLNGHAN NEW: TH BIRMENGILAM POST-HERKALD BIRKMINGILIM, ALAUAs: oe 9/16/63 Ed:tion: Nm eA LTIOBVAT,. ie STA i Author: GEORG 3 Cy RISGERS Editor ToS WwW. BLOOM THN SUBS ¢ BOMBING ‘OF L6$h. STRELT BAPTIST RCH, 9/15/63 25 Churacter: ar Classification: Submitting Office: Blicél NGHA *| (57, 3S 2,3F le io