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Honorabie Everett M. Dirksen _ The facts of each bombing incident have been © pee gs presented immediately to the Department, andthe FBI bas been °°... requested to investigate five bombing cases in Alabama, including =~" ‘ the one on September 15th in which four children were killed. - _. Due to the nature of the September 15th bombing, the FBI began =. an immediate investigation and advised the Department of the action being taken. Although the FBI does not actively investigate all bombing cases, it does cooperate in every way possible with state and local authorities. The full facilities of the FBI Laboratory and Identification Division are available to render any assistance. | — oe In spite of these facts, we are accused of both | exceeding and shirking our duties. Some of these charges stem trom a lack of understanding, but many of them come from persons who bave @ personal interest and distort the truth to suit their own purposes. The FBI has achieved a number of accomplishments in the civil rights field, Our investigations bave enabled the Department of Justice to file more than forty suits in five states to end racial discrimination in voting. FBI Agents solved the case involving the burning of a Greyhound bus transporting - "Freedom Riders" through Ajlabama in 1961. Six persons have been convicted for their part in this crime. An FBI investigation in September, 1962, led to the arrest and conviction in state court of four persons for burning a Negro church in Terrell County, Georgia. Byron De Le Beckwith, the man charged with the murder of Medgar Evers, was also arrested by FBI Agents.