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FO-350 (Rev. 5-8-81} (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD {Mount Clipping in Space Below} BIRMINGHAM, AL. a. re a - Date: 9/10/93 Tite "ALEXANDER ADMITTED C h U rc h bo mM b i ni g ; . CHURCH BOMBING, BROTHER From Staff and Press Reports MONTGOMERY — The brother of a for- mer Klu Klux Klansman implicated in a 1957 ractal slaying, said his brother also had claimed he participated in the 1963 bombing in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Bap- tist Church on Sept. 15, 1963. Alexander said his brother, a former Klansman who died of lung cancer last year, | also confessed to the killing of a black man of a Birmingham church that took the lives of four black girls. Sonny Afexander told a Montgomery tele- vision gtation yesterday that his brother, Henry ‘Alexander. had claimed he took part in Elba in the mid-1950s. “They put kim ina barre! and rolled him down a hill,” Alexan- der told WSFA-TV. “They drove nails in the | barrel and he was dead when they went to let him out at the bottom of the hill.” Le ieee t i “It seems that a very few guys in the Klan ' did most of the dirty deeds and Alexander was one of them,” said Morris Dees, director | of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that monitors and opposes the Klan. “We always knew that (convicted bomber Robert} Chambliss didn't bomb the Six- teenth Street Church alone,” he added. “‘So it just seems logical that Alexander was an- other rat in that pack.” , Sonny Alexander says his brother also ad- mitted to being part of a group that killed Willie Edwards Jr. in 1957, but he says he doubts his brother confessed to the killing on his deathbed. Henry Alexander's widow, Di- ane Alexander, has claimed her husband confessed to the killing before he died. But Sonny Alexander said his brother was only part of the group that forced Edwards to jump off a bridge. He said another man was responsible for the actual killing. “I don't believe he made a deathbed con- fession at all,” said Sonny Alexander, who said he granted the interview to clear his family’s name of the Edwards slaying. Mrs. Alexander wrote to Edwards’ family telling therm of her husband’s deathbed con- fession. Edwards' widow, Sarah Salter of Buffalo, N.Y,, appeared with Mrs. Alexan- der on a national TV program Wednesday. Copy Sent To FBIHQ cp 13 1993 FSi pou