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| October 29, 1963 ct 56 - MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; BOMBING OF SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SEPTEMBER 15, 1963 Lr BOMBING MATTERS s a prime suspect and an ass = OL CaG SUSpPeCts Ceveioped to date in the bombin Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, It is requested that you authorize the _ installation of a technical surveillance at his home _. or any address to which he may move in order that . - information may be developed leading to the identification — of the perpetrators of the bombing, which bombing killed four small Negro children on September 15, 1963, TES In view of the tense racial situation in Birmingham, further inflamed by the bombings, it is a) Na ‘ : .f “+ PA 7 pape foe. . af wo believed that additional activity on the part of those i.} 2 / who are responsible for the bombings could easily lead af acy to more rioting, bloodshed and loss of life, materially T° > i affecting the security of the United States, eo > tfull = Boe ERCLADSIC7 doe UL fala SSS John Edgar Hoover Director ~ mo Va oy APPROVED _ ~ “roleon DYATR Belmont cee ee na my gt gn gt pp : Bene uy a teowperie H “ ; q / dosen ““ . vai =e . ey ‘- = . ma nrveee cmineees ae cin asi Lj Sullivan Trt , .. a Tavel a pes - Nl t Trotter ‘ : - art, al oe SEE NOTE ON PAGE TWO,, ni Phe Leary