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oc soe * pp.350 (Rev. 7-16-63) President Johnson’s action in as- signing Secret Service agents to all ps presidential candidates paid off in ®’ Sacramento the other night when the Yagents and California police Touted from Gov. Ronald Reagan's residence “two kids armed with Molotov cock- tails. The malicious intent of the two «boys was frustrated by the guards k.and because their “bombs” didn’t go “off. Tt is possible these youngsters, * caught up in the violence which has | been preached and practiced by so many recently, thought they simply Wo ¢ were embarked-on a prank. More “likely they meant real harm to the . governor and his family. In any case, the use of homemade firebombs to avenge, or protest, or simply to make trouble has become murderously commonplace. , It doesn’t matter whether the bombs are aimed at the governor of ; California, the Yugoslav chancery in r_-Washington, the headquarters of an ~ anti-war outfit in New York, a labor (a ee = atte om mn : cae eran PETE AY | i" Rahal men Es 1 4 aaa The Bombers a ; leader’s home in Louisiana, the house ~ ~ of a Negro merchant in Mississippi, ' or at a church in Birmingham. The motive is criminal and the results i often lethal. 4 Four little girls died in the bomb- ing of the church here. The Negro_ also was | merchant in Mississippi killed. In the other, was sheer good fortune and no credit to the bomb-throwers. By no stretch of imagination can’. any of this come under “the head of : free speech or airing grievances. It is plain viclousness. All the weapons controls in the world won't curb this type of crime. The bombs are easily made—a wild- Tarl eyed, radical paper in New York sey- eral months ago published a diagram © of how to do it with a beer bottle and a little gasoline. , There is only one other answer: . Tough, aggressive police work and a the severest possible penalties, not: only for tossing one of thesé thin S,. but for making or possessing one. more recent, in- | cidents, nobody was hurt, but that — (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) —— TRE BIRMINGHAM NEWS 14 “BIRMINGHAM POSP- dy. HWFRALD co BIRMINGVAM, Date: 7-12-68 Edition: ALARM... - editorial Duard LeGrand BAPBOMB Author: Edltor: Title: Character: Clasaifications£57°352- a ‘ CL] Belng Investigated 459-3285 2-S4/ CAO ss | SeARhuEA Seeeee oo Submitting Office: SEES JUL 12 21968 aes _