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Ly ‘ a... These Agents on the night of September 15, 1963, . conducted an examination of damage to Sixteenth Street Baptist Church at 1530 Sixth Avenue, North. These Agents can testify to having found the following conditions present: ’ The characteristics of the damage, the distribution of debris inside and outside the church, and the type of doehric indicated Ss high-order tryna explosive such as dyna- “ry aw rw ar Fp uw mite, had been placed on the ground in front of a double window of the church and under an outside concrete stairway that partially covered the double window. The stairway leads from the ground level to the second floor level and is located at the northeast corner of the church. The double windows are in a basement room of the church known as the ladies lounge, and are covered on the outside by heavy gauge pro- tective wire screens, as are all the basement windows of this church. The floor of the lounge was approximately four feet below the window sill. The window sill was 8" above ground level. The church foundation was 30" thick at this point and consistad of a 10" stone facing over a 26" thick brick and masonry wall. The explosion fragmented the outside concrete stairway. Directly beneath the stairway and opposite the window sill, in the ground, was a crater measuring 5} feet wide, 2} feet deep, and it extended from the wall of the church to the inner edge of the sidewalk, a distance measuring 3 2/3 feet. The explosion fragmented the solid Tiaané vm windeer ef Tl and ¢anan au + +ha foundst ti nn nf ¢ha Pe ert cs teu Wauu0qw? BAe BAS FWA WU FMW AWUMMUEEEAWIE VL veil church immediately beneath the window sill. The window glass, window frames and heavy wire gauge protective screens were shattered and blown into the ladies lounge. Extensive