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Mount Chi us Priest Eye- Witness To ot Aftermath Of Bombing (Father William James, Diocesan Confra- ternity Director, here writes of what he wit- nessed and felt immediately after the bomb- img of a Negro Baptist Church in Birming- ham last Sunday morning. Father James hap- pened to be travelling just three blocks away when the bomb went off. He is a native ef Birmingham.) It sounded like a score of supersonic jet planes had simultaneously broken the sound barrier People poured from their homes to sean the sky. The almost deserted Sunday morning strecis quickly became crowded with People still uncertain what had caused the deafening blast T drove on fur about a block until IT saw a man pomting ta what seemed to be a cloud of smoke. slowly rising fram a spot about 4 blocks away Tnrning qnickly Jedrove snwand the area ind parked my car, F began walking the short shbunce to an cea now swarming. wath hun f . e a Space Below! ‘ [- la ' | : Page 1 The Catholic Week Birmingham, Ala. dreds of people tvanlically rushing to a strect atrearly mobbed with a swaying pushing crowd and a few policemen, some of whom wert’ auxiliaries with sleel helmets covering their. heads, People, old and young. were crving Some seemer dazed and completely bewildered. Oth- ers were cursing and shouting at an enemy } who seemed to be face to face with tnem. Re- | spectfully, most moved aside as [ got closer * to a rather large church, the Sixth Avenue | Baptist Church. from which people were stream ing and into which ambulance drivers and others were already going. About ten cars parked next to the side en- trance of the church looked Ike they had been dragged there from a sunk yard. One of them, seemingly blown out into the middle of the street, was a pitiful sight. Rocks and large sianes and pieces af concrete were every. bore, From a building acrass the strat shre:ts . _ 9/20/63 i \: ! |ave | i vie: UNSUB; Bombing of 16th St. Baptist jChureh, ya Shees Fuarrers crassane suse: MO 157-416 Submituny © Mobile _