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4! 372 tRev. 7 T=1ld-03) ~ | iA UNITED § STA’ TES GOVERNMENT é Memorandum TO : The Director DATE: Sep t ’ /% 1963 ™ \ FROM : N.P, catshol, Peapbonb ) SUBJECT: The Congressional Record Pages A5875 - A5876, Congresswoman Green (D) Oregon, extended ied her | rks concerning the bombing of the Negro churdh in Birmingham. Mrs. G included several newspaper articles with her remarks, This material included an artit ‘| fram the Washington Evening Star of September 17, 1963, entitled "A Flower for the Graves." This article stated "It is too late to blame the ‘sick criminals who handled the namite. The FBI and the police can deal with kind. The charge against them ig “ ple. They killed four children. Only we can hace the truth, Southerner--you and. Pages 16315 - 16318. Senat(r Hart, w) Michigan, submitted for him oa Senators Kuchel, (R) California; Humphrey, @) Minnesota; and Javits, (2) New \fo: “4 a resolution extending condolences of the Senate to the families of the Negro children’ - killed in Birmingham. Mr. Humphrey requested to have printed in the Record a copy oj a letter the above four Senators sent to the President recommending that he issue a proclamation designating Sunday, September 22, 1963, as a day of national mourning an rezpembrance for children killed in Birmingham. Mr. Humphrey spoke at length on the “Tet Biymingham situation and included several newsvaper articles and editorials. Inclu} ed : } 4m these was the President's statement on the Eir aiingham church bombing as print j the Washington Fost of September 14, 1963. it was pointed out in this statement ‘ 5 i “Assistant Attorney General Eurke Marstall has returned to Birmingham to be of 3-4 assiptance to coramunity leaders and law enforcement officials--and bomb specialist ot a! |e fcr Bureau oi Investigation are there to lend every assistance in the detection 0: ) responsible for yesterday's crime." \° | Page 16394. Congressman Lindsay, (R) New York, spoke concerning thel bombing in Birmingham. He stated, "I call upon the U. 3. Department of Justice to j multiply its efforts 100-fold to uncover the fects surrounding this crime and to bring to ; Judtice the persons who committed it. But np FBI technique is needed to tell us that this F at erime weighs heavily onthe conscience of evéry American and that the tears shed by the Re a rs and mothers, brothers and sisters of these little children are shed for all of. bas bei A HICH Be Pages 16231 - 16232. Senator Young, (D) Ohio, spoke concerning the i ent bombing in Eirmingham. He stated, ‘Iam well satisfied that the Federal Givernment is doing its utmost, through the services of FBI operatives and others, te sdarch out the culprits who are guilty of one of the most terrible crimes tlat have Been committed in recent years." Record for was reviewed and pertinent items were 7 he marked for the fb. ‘Ss boon This form has teen prepared in order that NOT RECORDED portions of a copy of the original memorandum may be clipped, mounted, and pldg6d ocr 2 41963 in oppropriat Re equ w cake Be pubject matter files, In the original air/ sy es captioned and dated as above, the fem were [22 TNA OT emcee