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FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-50) : Oo 7 2) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Copy to: ; & Report of a Ofen Birmingham Date: 2-7: Field Office File #¢ 157-352 Bureou File #: = 157-1025 Tater UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; BOMBING OF SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA SEPTEMBER i5, 1963 Chorsctes, BOMBING MATTERS; CONSPIRACY: SUMMARY Sixteenth Street Baptist, a Negro church, Birmingham, bombed 10:22 a.m., 9-15-63. Four teen- age girls killed and 16 others injured. Debris indicated high order explosive, such as dynamite, placed on ground in front of window and under out- side concrete stairway at northeast corner of church, Damage appeared to be consistent with that caused by 10 sticks of dynamite or its equivalent. This document-tontatns neither recommendations ner conclugions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and 1s loaned to your agency; it and tts contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.