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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 32
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N AID THAT 10 DAYS AFTER THE CHURCH BOMBIN
Les STRUCK AGAIN-- THIS TIME WITH A PAIR OF BOMBS MEST CRED. 0 KILL
| rey P AND DETECTIVES WHO WERE MAKING THINGS UNCOMFORTABLE F
IES
BOMB, PROBABLY, ONE STICK “op DYNANITE, WAS SET OFF IN
A VACANT LOT MB EE ORUSHED TO THE SCENE, BUT COULD N NOT LOACATE
IMMEDIATELY SECOND BOMB, Dynan ® nN A CAN FILLED With
THE
WENT OFF 13 HINUIES AFTER THE FIRS
RUSTY HRA PEL a WE OR Us, A POLICEMAN WAS QUOTED ST eAVYING. *IT
WAS SET TO ALLOW MUS FNOUGH TIME FOR US TO GET THERE, IF WE HAD
PANACLEDS* BOMB, MAYBE 50 OFFICERS WOULD HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES OR BEEN
D
THE ARTICLE SAID FBI AGENTS FEEL THAT STATE POLICE CHIEF COL,
AL ihico "SERIOUSLY HURT THE CHANCES OF BUILDING A CASE® AGAINST
THE BOMBER AND HIS GANG BY ARRESTING TwO MEN WHO HAD BEEN INVOLVED
IN KU KLUX KLAN ACTIVITIES.
MEN EE, CHAMBLISS, 59, AND CHARLES CAGLE, 92, BOTH OF
BIRMINGHAM? Bare’ CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF DYNAMITE AND
Rates WERE CONVICTED, FINED $100 EACH AND SENTENCED TO 180
THE MAGAZINE SAID THE FBI CONSIDERED IT A PREMATURE ARREST
WHICH TIPPED OFF THE BOMBERS THAT AUTHORITIES ‘KNEW A GREAT DEAL
ABOUT TFEIR ACTIVITIES BUT ALSO SHOWED THEY DID Wor HAVE ENOUGH
EVIDENCE TO CONVICT THEM OF THE CHURCH BOMBING.
6 PREVENT ANY OF THE GANG FROM TALKING, THE MAGAZINE S
A *KISS OF DEATH MEETING® WAS HELD WITH ALL OF THE GROUP PNVDLVED IN
THE BOMBING ATTENDING.
woulL ANY ONE OF YOU EVER TALKS, IT WILL BE THE KISS OF pe ATH FC
THE RINGLEADER, MISTER X, WAS REPCRIED AS VOWING. ‘WE JOIN
Hands HERE AND NOW IN SWEARING THAT EACH OF US TAKES A VOW To KILL
ME MAN WHO GIVES ANYTHING AWAY TO THE POLICE.
| THE MAGAZINE SAID THAT DETECTIVES AND FEDERAL AGENTS FOLLOW
no
VA
®MISTER X® CONSTANTLY, HE KNOWS THEY ARE FOLLOWING HIM AND SOMETIMES
SPITS AT THEM AND YELLS *YOU HOGS® AT THEM
THE BOMBER IS BEING SO CAREFUL NOW te * MAGAZINE a THAT
, OFFICIALS HAVE LITTLE HOPE THEY CAN C VICT HIM OF MURDE THEY HAVE |
MORE HOPE OF PINNING A CONSPIRACY CHARGE ON HIM,
*YOU'VE PRETTY NEARLY GOT TO HAVE SOMEBODY wo WAS at THE MEETING | r
WHEN IT WAS PLANNED,® WEAVER WAS QUOTED .
H H OPLE WHO DID THIS ARE GOING TO THE CHAIR.”
vernon TH OFFICIAL SAID °WE WILL GET HIM, HE'LL M MAKE HIS MISTAKE
one GOING TO SOLVE THIS CASE IF IT TAKES TEN YEARS.”
5/29--JD329 PED
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