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In Rights Cases FBI Operates Only Under Justice Dent. Orcers Washington Burcau agents reported the facts to the Copley News Service Department of Justice. In only! WASHINGTON — The Federal.five cases was the FBI ordered ceean of Tees . !to investigate. The Birmingham ‘angry protests that have arisen/ here FBI men acted immediately foilowing the fatal Sept. 14 bom! because of the fatalities involved. ing of a Birmingham, Ala; The other four incidents under church. |FBI study — all in Birmingham in — Were the two May 11 bombings he home of the Rev. A. D. W. ther of the Rev, Martin Luther King: the May 11 blast at the Gaston Motel and the Sept. 4 bombing ef the home of A. D, Foar Negro girls were killed the bigs: e “At all times it freetly under instruc- 2 Department of Jus- In the incigs tosion, how. gro and civil rights leaders hav accused the FBI of failing to act 2 Jan have been reported ngs in Birmingham, but PBI agents have been success- ful in a series of investigations volving civil rights violence. nai Aftests were made after inves- "8 ueacon of two Negro church burnings in 1962 in Terrell Coun- ts Act of ty. Ga, and another at Leesburg, 19:0 the FBI cannot investigate: Ga. Nine men were arrested after ch incidents without direct or FBT investigation of the burting ders from the Deparment of Jus! gf g Greyhound bus near Anni- tice, regard’ess of requests f0T 5. ala in 1961. The bus was{ s) help from local authorities. | ag me the Con FBI records show that in each, gress for Racis! Equality on 2 of the 46 Alabama bombings,,called “Freedom Ride. Joliet Herald- News Joliet, Hlinois September 21, 1963 Page 9