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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11

69 pages · May 22, 2026 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 69 pages OCR'd
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Bre annwuncement cems2s ThelTpe—Hore accomminyine’a ti WhtetheLigy moun jal ‘White House announced —that| reward contribution mage ning "a h ioveqisatiogs Spoved ern President Kennedy will discuss!a clergyman said, “You're to be }tWo fronts. FBI agents continued |the Birmingham racial situation|commended for your cause ana i search for.clues in the bornb-, with, six Negro leaders in Wash. {let's all hope that these horrible Ing. -and a: US. District Court acts can be stopped.” rand jury “investigated possible ington Thursday A pledge sent to City Council {Span Interference with cait- In another development. ® [was signed, “God bless you.” schoo! desegregation here. resolution before Congress today | PERSONS WISHING to swell girls, were among i asks the President to declare [the fund should telephone 323-5431, cake neprees killed” Sunday, . |Extension’ 266,.or write to “Re-peRolice shot.g Negro youth while Sunday 9 national day of mourn eet Fund,” City. Hall pursuing, Fockihrovers, and IN BALTIMORE, Mayor Theo-~ two white youths are charged died lp the bombing of their ‘dore R. McKeldin ordered all city with shooting a 13-year-old chorch last Sunday. flags flown at half-staff and urged, Negro boy. lresidents of the Maryland cityf. A JEFFERSON COUNTY Crim, ALMOST $15,000 has bee's uw observe the day as one ¢f)§na! Court hearing on first degree’ jledged to the reward sum sinc? cummemoration of the four chz!!gnurder charges is scheduled at was announced last Friday thet deen & p.m, Friday for Michael Lee Sling, ing for four Negro children who 7,437 had been raised. ’: “We cannot bring back the ‘Barley and ery Joe ‘An all-out campaign by Bit- little girls who were blasted 16. : | dmingham religious organizations from their young lives because tw E Scouts has been instrumental in the of their color but we can and | ry a funds's surpassing the $50,000 re- must dedicate ourselves to the ) ralty—wterr fey met tworhegeo’ ward target proposed by City task of assuring that they did brothers on a bicycle and Virgil! Council. not die in vain.” the mayor | ware was killed. Sims, accused of Although leaders of all faiths said. shooting him twice with a pistol, who helped put the fund “over NEGRO LEADERS who will i said he thought one of the broth- the top" have officially com. confer with the President are the! ers was holding a cock pleted dhetr task, a spokesman Rey Martin Luther King, the[” Crowds demonstrated outside’ said. “We hope citizens of the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, his "the US Embassy in Kampala own will voluntarily keep deputy; A. G Gaston, Birming- Uganda mmpathy pratests giving: until the reward fund ‘ham businessman who has been were heli! throughout Uns coun: reaches $100.00) as a sign to the a bomb target. Dr. Lucius Pitts, (py ‘whole world that we are nbt let- president of Miles College, Bishop)“ Upion sales clerks in 2.000 tiag these imsane bombers con- H 1. Murchison and the Rev. J.* metropoljtan New York stores ows - * 3b. Ware schedule brief memorial sery- WAS. hae thee a ASSISTANT SENATE Majority” ices . “Ehtergration) tens Habert Ho tluspsesacd{ \ RESOLUTION submitted td fund. Tt is a fund to stop Tawlest ice otter re ootfertd "hel Congress asked President Ker ness." Vout us cading tor a fallonall aady to set cade ext Sunday Three homes, a church, a dé-luay of mourning the Wis! anniversary of hel partment store and motel , Funeral services tor three of! Emancipation Proclamation an- been bémbed in recent ihe slain girls were at 3:30 this ‘nouncement, as at diay uf mourn Four Negro childrén were killed) tremoon. Last rites for Carole ing for the four girls and other persons injured in the) Rusamond Robertson, the fourth’ Assistant ( latest’ bombing Sanday at Six- "sini to die. were held Tuesday | Burke Marsi teenth Street Baptist Church National Negra teuders, includ-| Washington to report lo U.S. Touay's breckdown on reward ing Ray Wilking, evecutve Sec: Atty. Cen. Robert F. Kennedy sut-erptions showed that $37,500 retary of the National Associatiun on progress of the FBI investi has ven pledged through religious of Advancement of Colored Pen gation, : anizations, $23,717 through City ple, attended the funeral. DEBRIS AND OTHER mate: Mali. $10,000 by Gov. George C. The Res. John Hl. Cross, pas: ‘yials collected at the church are Waliace ($5,000 in the May bomb- tor of the bombed Sixteenth being packed and sent to the FBI ing of the A. D. King home and Street Baptist Church, spoke at jaboratory in Washington for 20M un Sunday's church bomb. vw funeral of the Robertson ‘eyaminalion ing. and.$5,000 by A. G. Gaston child | The FBI efturt is called its esimarked for conviction of per | WE SAID THE ruthless miur-jmost intense since the pursuit of sure Aho bombed his home Geiet who killed hee “did aot only ihank robber Jun Dillinger inj A minister said all pledges (tomb the Sixteenth Street Baptist jthe 1930s were made over the signatures bChurch. did not only kill these, As the first funeral was held, of-reupessible persors———r ffovely innocent girls, but some; hundreds of letters and tele: | <bqw the whole world sas shaken | grains of sympathy, along with ' People everywhere died.” | some cash donations, poured In | ["ta the wrecked church? Atty, Gen, dew back to
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