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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11
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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?
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