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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 18

124 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Sep 15, 1963 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 120 pages OCR'd
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PAGE TWO. AVENUE AND CENTER STREET SOUTH, REVEALED BOMB JS SHRAPNEL TYPE COMPOSED OF NAILS, NUTS, BOLTS, PIECES OF PIPE AND WHAT APPEARS TO BE A METAL CONTAINER. WOOD CREOSOTE LIGHT POLE SHATTERED APPROXIMATELY ONE FOOT ABOVE GROUND. CHUNKS OF CURBING AND SIDEWALK BLOWN AWAY. CRATER THREE FEET BY TWO FEET BY EIGHTEEN INCHES DEEP. AT LEAST SEVEN HOUSES ACROSS STREET FROM POINT OF IMPACT HAD PIECES OF SHRAPNEL EITHER IMBEDDED IN THEIR FRONTS OR WERE COMPLETELY PENETRATED. IN ONE INSTANCE A NUT WENT THROUGH THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE AND A PIECE OF FURNITURE. WINDOW GLASS IN PRACTICALLY ALL HOUSES WITHIN ONE BLOCK RANGE BROKEN. IT IS THE CONSENSUS OF INVESTIGATORS ON THE SCENE INCLUDING FBI THAT FIRST DETONATION POSSIBLY WAS SMALL EXPLOSIVE DEVICE TO BRING RESIDENTS INTO STREET WHERE PERSON PLACING SHRAPNEL BOMB ANTICIPATED A LARGE NU“BER WOULD BE INJURED OR KILLED WHEN THE SECOND DEVICE EXPLODED, INCLUDING POLICE OFFICERS WHO WOULD HAVE ARRIVED IN THE SECOND EXPLOSION IS APPROXIMATELY ONE FORTYFIVE AM. FIRST AGENTS ON SCENE WITHIN FIFTEEN MINUTES. AGENTS ADVISED TO USE CAUTION IN RESPONDING TO FUTURE BOMBINGS. NUMEROUS PIECES OF SHRAPNEL, POSSIBLY PORTIONS OF CONTAINER, PIECES OF LAMP POST, SIDEWALK, CURB, END PAGE TWO.
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