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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11
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State investigators. arrested itwo persons in connec- i Bi ingharh Po.
Birmingham | be e Wallace lice Dept. knows ‘absolutely. noth:
in Montgor ing about any arrests being
Shortly before 1 ra. om today, Waltoce released this! minent’ in the bombing. Any,s
+|announcement comes as @ com:
te investigators have_ taken. into’ cu ay “Gndiplete surprise to
holding two Persons ii
ith th
Ig “withheld in the interest
he; continuing investiga-
!_ Jones, Governor Waltace's
whether the two persons were,
lite ‘or. Negro; where they were
|, where they were being
, or where they were from.
Fal! T can teil you is what was
the governor’ s statement,” sani
nes said he could not reveal!
ich state’ investigators “had,
made the arrests, or any infor
fation beyond the govern
jort’ statement.—+—>
* - Tnminent’
ee, after 8:30 p.m.
Bis on the. word that an. arrest
j:the bombing. case was Ai
last.
made “within a few hours,”
4nd intimated that the _ arrest!
ald scome, last night, some
dragge al ay, toward]
*alhered
F the’ goverhor's ‘office, in Mont-|
gomery.
‘group of newsmen met thé!
nor, as. he flew into, the
“at Montgomery,” comin;
from -.a._‘speech-making . tri
Hed Fla.
fallace would not comment on
the arrest at this time. He left)
airport ‘and went ‘to the gov-;
@fior’s. ‘mansion, ‘as’ tension
fpouited and” omidpight, ap-!
k
the” governor's gffice. re. 8
= Set Up Cameras
rr Col
lace at the mation by télephone
Newsmen- said state photogra-‘o!
|S Jefferson
ae
phers ‘were ‘setting’ up’ ‘movie\fice
lequipment at the governor's of
fice, indicating! that the governor:
was coming into }
ithe mansion _shortl;
‘The. antiquiceiment puzzled Tacal
law enforcement officers, who|
[said they knew nothing of it, or
id not comment at all.
Al - Lingo, Allace’s Publi¢
jafety Director, was registered
it: the St. Francis Motel in Bir-
Imingham, but his room did pot
ing aid at Kilby ‘Prisoit in‘ Mi nt
‘gomery but prison officials
hey bad ‘no knowledge of _anyoi
being held there in connection
with the bombing.
The governor's statement “did
nat ‘make clear whether the. per-
sons were being’held in connection
with: the. bombing ofthe | 16th
Styéet Bay
The announcement
referréd to any ot ae Tumber”
s to the —
“FBI ‘experts ‘Who “scoured the!
office om wreck ‘age of the church deter-
mined that the bomb was planted
jin the basement of the building.
It went off when. about 400 Ne-
igroes were in the building.
It touched off sporadic violence
that fasted far into the
left two more Negro youths ‘dead. |
Negro leaders, headed by the |
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
called for restraint from Negroes
and’ troops from the Federal: gov- ‘
the’ bomb
hmenit
claimed * “there: “had
ftaw ay
_ Negro” and
; }with President Kennedy following
the bombing. As a. result, . Ken:
nedy. sent in former. Army Foot
ball Coach Earl (Red) Blaik ‘and !
former .Army ,Secretary Keungth |
Rove try “to help’ fiegotate |
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