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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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FD-350 {4-3.62) ¢ (Indicate page, name o newspaper, city and state.) eee THE BIRMINGHAM NEW a . . - Las _ p dmi 5 Sawin te jeleee's | on Miaen In Vines 4 mIsstons ee ye colccman! He said. they. took it ontile THE BIRMINGHAM said two men told him they helped ‘town and hid it in some kudzu | POST-I-RALD ide a case of dynamite in the vines on Mockingbird-In in Gar- g 5) woods the night a Negro leader's dendale. re e a i home was bombed last month, | Defense Atty. Matt Murphy Jr.. ' Statement Introduced objected strongly to admissicn of In Cagle’s trial, the state intro- the alleged confession, Murphy 7 duced a signed statement Cagle questioned whelher it was made cers made to Capt. Robert Godwin cor- voluntarily. He said that Cagle teborating Hall’s version of what had been held incommunicado for | —— , happened the night of Sept. 4. ;22 hours alter his arrest, Charles Cagle ‘According to Cagle’s statement,| W. E. Berry, deputy fire mar- + the dynamite was allegedly hid- shall, Lsstified that no permit for Draws Maximum 0, “Sher atty, arthur Shores’ possession of aynamiteenee bean | — Under Laws jhome was bombed. ssued to Cagle, Hall or Cham- | A bomb exploded at a corner jbifss ~~~ — One of three men charged ‘of Shores’ bouse on Center-st late | Cagle and Chambliss were ar- with itfegal possession of ,that night, touching off a riot in jrested hy state investigators Sept. | pate: dynomite during recemt,%hich one Negro wos shot to \29. Hall was taken into custody © 10/9/63 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMS bombings wes convicted lost ‘death. Tt was the second time in [two days later. Edition: FINAL hight in Recorder's Court two weeks the home had been. Birmingham has had more than | Author: here bombed, and came on the day ,40 racial bombings since World ‘Negro childten registered for the [War IL including that of Sept.J oo JAMES E, MILLS Charles Caste 22, was fined Sind Fiat time at neardy Graymont {15 in which four girls were blasted| 7's: BAPBOMB and sentenced ty six months hard school. to death at Sixteenth Street Bap- labor. He posted a $300 appeal Cagle’s statement said he went jtist Church. bond and was released. ‘The to a Ku Klux Klan rally the | In passing sentence Judge charge is a misdemeaner. ‘ight of Sept. 4 in nearby Besse- Langer said testimony definitely} “P°'9°t*s* BM City Judge Earl Langner con- mer, where he met Chambliss and jestablished that the defendant is, or vieted Cagle on two counts in- Hail, Later, the statement said, |guilty of having in his possession] volving the dynamite. Bunce Wyent toa restaurant explosives and “coming at times| 0s” The two other men, scheduled where they ate supper and “sat like these the court feeis compel.{ Submitting Office: BIEMEXSHAY to be tried this morning, are R. E. around listening. te a Birmitghar iled to assess the maximum fine of “_ eke Chambliss, 59, and John Wesley Police radio about the bombing.” |$10Q, and costs and six ths at, Hall, 3 Both are charged with pies, hey let they went Recripper “nt SEAS possession of dynamite without a {Chambliss” house at 25 av, 6 7 ct and with aiding and abet. (m where, Cagle's statement said, g 7 v4 Lom F/- £0 ting-Bethe illegal possession of Hall and a woman who came out } a ‘dynamite. . ‘of the house went to a car parked . & there and brought aut” a' box , oe ie whichustiwas afraid was dyra- , was cy _ mite.””
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