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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11
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TOM LANKFORD AND IRVING BEIMAN
News staff wrilers — aera~we
church becam 10 sticks of dynamite
a grave for four children.
Gurishots echoed in the streets while pol
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[This was Birmingham Sunday—a city blasted ‘again
the brink of disaster when the explosion ‘shattered
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, near .downtown,
Morning worship services. ~ neo
The deaths of the four girls marked ‘the first tme
one has died in & bombing Itself during the more
Shan 40 that have perplexed the city in recent years.
TA few weeks ago a young Negro was shot to death
1 Mob reaction to the second bombing of Negro
ney Arthur Shores’ home,
(CRACK NATIONAL INVESTIGATORS are teaming
Toeal officials in the manhunt for the killer.
MThe Justice Department has assigned a special force
,FBI agents, including bomb experts, to solve the
bing Which heavily damaged the church and in-
red,15 other Negroes.
"Two top aides of Atty, Gen. Robert F. Kennedy’ flew
into Birmingham Sunday night: Asst. Deputy Atty. Gen.
| Joseph Dolan and John Nolan, the attorriey—yonece!'s
‘administrative assistant.
s person or persons responsible would be caught.
E-- The governor rushed State Safety Director Al Lingo
Sand 200 State Troopers into the city Sunday evening—
at the request of Mayor Albert Boutwell, Chief of
Police Jamie Moore and Sheriff Mel Bailey—to. aug-
‘ment the overworked city police force, Birmingham
not the National, Guard, were, aletted, by Wallace:
IN.A TELEGRAM TO THE governor, the. officials
said that in view of hte “tragic and abhorent events in
Birmingham Sunday mornihg,
deal-of unrest in our city, While the situation appears to.
gbe. well under control of Joc; slaw. enforcement t thi
ine, the pessibility of further te i
“Two white men, questioned after the bombing, were
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