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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 40
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SENSE, OF OUTRAGE
"> By Andrew J. Glese | Trotter
_ of The Herald Tribune Staff. - ; Tele Room
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” President ‘Kennedy yesterday expressed . Gandy
“q@ deep sense of outrage and grief” over
the bomb-blast killing of four Negro girls
in a Birmingham church Sunday.
_ Also, in Congress members deplored the |
outrage, and some called for stronger a ac-
tion by the government.
1 And at the Justice Denartment, Attor-
[ ney General Robert F. Kennedy conferred
‘several times with his brother, the Pres- ;
ident, and with various subordinates De wee ee _
__soheerned with clyil_ rights. | an TBadition, there ere 450 police OMcars" |
.. Throughout Washington there was a .«.-«XMh'O)-_ herriff’s deputies and 300 state troop- .
horror over=?iret-id happened. ' ers in the city.
” Sunday Taorning in Birmingham. ' In the government's judgment “last
The , President, without mentioning | Might, this was enough of a force unless
" Alabama’s segregationist Gov. George G. the situation turns drastically worse, r-. ~~
“Wallace by name, sald: “It is regrettable || Attorney General Kennedy canceled & ,
that public disparagement of law and | ‘Peaking trip to Philadelphia to remain in
order has encouraged violence which hes the capital.
. fallen on the t" . t neo a Nera Oe statement issued |
: The vrentent oe nal od upon white and Oug ouse press secretary
: Negro citizens everywhere to “put passions ae ther enaent Kennedy said:
. and prejudices aside” to preserve “domes~- If these cruel and tragic events can
tic justice and tranquility.” ~ only awaken that city and state—if they
“In the late afternoon, the White House can only awaken this entire nation—to a |
said it had not yet ived an'appeal from . realization of the folly of racial injustice
"the Rey. Dr. Ma vin Luther jr. and and hatred and violence, then it is not too’
other Negro leaders asking me resi dent © ate for all concerned to unite in steps -
to order Federal troops into Birmingham . ‘°W4rd peaceful progress before more lives
to maintain racial peace. ore lost. . 7
' But government sources said that no ‘Oe e President praised “‘the Negro leaders {| ‘The Washington Post and
f troops would be sent to the troubled city “of Birmingham who are counseling re- ‘| Times Herald
unless new Jarge-cale violence occurred. straint instead of violence’ and noted that | = "
Plans were to rely on the efforts of Burke the “principles of peaceful -snelf-control | The Washington Daily News
Marshall, the Justice Department's civil - ¢ least appealing when most needed.” | The Evening Star
Tights chief, to work on the scene in his The Birmingham bombing was deplored: | \
peace-making role. yesterday irf four Senate speeches. It also: New York Herald Tribune
- “We're counting on-him. to keep the lid. toe tee pies by two Republican liberals New York Journal-Ametican
- on,” one offictal said. ~ -. for faster Congressional action on the
It would take another Presiaential pte "Civil rights bill, New York Mirror
- Jamation to send regular troops in. - Those rising to denounce the bombing New York Daily News
There are already 300 Federalized troops, were Sens. Jacob K. Javits, R., N. ¥. . New York Poat
members of the Alabama National Guard, | J. William Fulbright, D., Ark, Thomas H.
quartered at the Birmingham Armory and Kuchél, Calif., the minority whip, and Mike. The New York Times
_ available on 1 the call of the chief of police. Mansfield, Mont, the majority leader. The Worker
. . at Ree cect eee Le + _ LRA eek od oe r - The New Leader
— The Wall Street Journal
The National Observer
People's World
‘ t Date
SEP i 7 1963
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ENCLOSURE
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