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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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lt ADE @ Maj. Bill Jones, of the state tne investigative divisioa, . py. fele murders, "yg SS “% jone this morning. A Site wide fond for fu- MOORE REPORTED they said.nerat expenses and hospital bills ithey were holding the two men.of the dead and all the injured Investigators of the Sixteenth/in the church bombing and its IStreet bombing that killed four.aftermath Sept. 15 | now has girts have been at a loss as to reached more than $3,000 Re Whal kind of device was used to, maining funds will bi Betonate a ‘package of approxregtoration of damaged ities. tnately 10 sticks of dynamite. The b_ was placed under the steps neat the rear of the church and killed the four girls who were in- ‘side a dressing room just inside the rear basement wall . About 20 persons in _ the church congregation were ‘hurt the blast. Two young Ne- Broes were shot to death as an souigrowth of the bombing. Ten days later two explosions, one a large shrapnel bomb, were set off in a Negro section on the Southside. No one was hurt but police described the bombs as “work of a fie AN EXPLOSION with the esti mated force of 10 sticks of dyna- mite occurred beneath con steps on the east side of the Six teenth Street Church at 10:22 a.m, Sept. 15 All the dead and injured were in the basement of the chntch. A task force of FBI officers, including bomb experts, joined local investigaters the next day In a painstaking search of the area. Several hundred pounds of de- jbris and other mater have been sent to the FBI laboratory at Washington for detailed cxamina- ‘tion and testing. ‘A Justice Department spokes- man said the FBI effort to track down the bombers is the most in- tensive since the John Dillinger manhunt of the 1930s, A REWARD FUND already had been started for arrest aud con- viction of a tear gas bomber who injured more than 20 shoppers ‘and employes at Loveman's sev- pane
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