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\ FI°-350 (Rev, 7-16-63) — “Also King, Kennedy vayings BRUCE wil bombing | recorded I By ANDREW KILPATRICK. News staff writer The bombing of Birmingham’ s Six- teenth Street Baptist Church in 1963—as | well as the possibility of killing Presi- _ dent John F, Kennedy and Dr. Martin ’ Luther King Jr.—were discussed ina . 20-minute conversation which was recorded by a room bug planted in a Miami hotel room Nov. 9, 1963, accord- ing to Miami police. The conversation was between a po- lice informer and a ‘‘states’ rights” advocate, The Miami police, became they did not have jurisdiction over the crimes, said they turned the information over to the FBI. But an FBI spokesman in Washing- ton D.C., who recently indicated the’ tape was ‘not a good lead, said he could . - not really comment about it because Sen. Frank Church's U.S. Senate Intel- ligence. Committee is studying the Kennedy assassination. HE SAID information about the tape | had beep turned over to ther¥esnen | Contniisgion, which itVeSTigated | Kennedy’s assassination, and he said questions about the tape would have to be addressed to Warren Commission ibs members. But the 14-volume Warren Commis: | Sian ranart we ee ee oP th Sjon. —eEs'* 4 miak Kes fd Tent mina | ‘enchiimnl! tape. And lL Lee Rankin of New York | City, general counsel for the Warren | ' Commission, said Friday, “I don’t re- _ calf such a tape,”’ and he said informa- tion about the tape had not come to him. Others who served on the Warren Com- mission said they had no recollection of _ the tape. In the Miami conversation, which : took place 35 days after the chur ch : _bombing, and 13 days before the Kenne- | * dy assassination, the states’ rights advocate describes a now-dead Tennts- ; see Ky. Klux Klan official ghatalked ehneet haa tha showah ean harmhod —s - KENNEDY ——ae ” ‘Bhomen talking in the hotebreom Peer to kill Kennedy...”best Way would be off a building with a high-. powered rifle.” AND THAT'S how Kennedy was kill- .edin Dallas, Tex., Nov. 22, 1963. The Birmingham News recently interviewed now-retired Miami police- man Everett Key who planted the bug, — and The News recently listened to the ~ baselyaedible tape while cheekingt _ number at leads about the church bombing. : Both n men who took part in the hotel conversation are dead. But before the states’ rights advocate died, a Miami News reporter, Bill Barry, now a free lance writer, inter- viewed him by phone. Barry said the: man at first denied knowing anything about plans to kill Kennedy, but he apparently soon realized the Barry's questions were based on the tape police ad let Reese: hn on hahaeaar " Faas ee le (57 - 2S 17S evens oo (Indicate page, name of newspaper, cliy and siate.) The Birmingham New Birmingham, Ala. Date: 3/14 /76 Edition: Sunday Authorfindrew Kilpatr Editor: John W. Bloom Titlz: BAPBOMB Character: or Cicesitication: Submitting Office: Birming AX Kpeing Investigated -