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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 (Rev, 7-16-63} fe “HUGH W. SPARROW News staff writer MONTGOMERY, Jan. I!— State Public Safety Director Al Lingo is convinced that the bombers of a Birmingham Ne- gro church last Sept. 15, in which four children were filed, eventually brought to trial. “Tt may take time.” Lingo said here Saturday. “But the big thing that will eventual- ly break the case wide open is that great big re- ward. “More than $70,000 is wait- ing ta go to the person or persons who SPARROW tan provide the necessary missing links and I fee! certain that seoner ar later the right persons will tak.” Lingo emphasized. investigators of the Public Safety Department never have halted efforts to crack the case. Additional facts, he suid, may play a major part in the fina! solution also. that LINGO “BAID IT “wr qoive (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Li > says-ehurch or PF omber: to be caught significant to him that since 137 sticks of dynamite were found concealed in a wooded area about two weeks after the church bombing there have been no further bomb- ings in Birmingham. Jt may be interesting to will be Know. he declared, that state igators expect to de- ae Be ap velop a confession in the possession cases. That person, sald Lingo, Is going to admit that the dyna- mite cache belonged to all three defendants. These facts, he said, could give investigators sound leads toward arrests of the bomb- ers, dee? {indicote page, name of newspaper, city and state.] Cc-8 THE BIRMINGHAM NEW: THE BIRMINGHAM _ POST-HERALD BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA Date: 1/12/64 Edition: NDAY Author: Tea HW. SPAREOW Title: Character: BH or Classification: BIRMINGHAM Submitting Office Being investigated as a ai! 73S 2 -SFI-§ SEARCHED SERIALIZED. Au JAN15 1964 FBI — BIRMINGHAM
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