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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22

69 pages · May 22, 2026 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 67 pages OCR'd
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News iat wtites ee icmmliise BY GEORGE 0 RENE of an early Sunday running gunbatile that left the man's pretty school teacher compan- jon dead and two other per- | as the gunman. Tucker testi nef, 3 © sons — including a patrolman } fied that affer he rammed a jy > arreeay saly a few days azo s — critically Injured, __. ol speeding ‘late’ model black ad been’ struck by: bullets * Buick chased from’ the scene a The gunfire broke out after’ of the - alleged attempted |. police attempted to arrest the | hombing, the driver, whom he |” f man near tie home of a ° jdentified as Tarrants, turned dropped his pistol but ran to’* ” police officials would not ‘con- ‘the black: Buick -and fled firm a report that seme 10 under a barrage of. withering men staked out the house fi police fire. area Saturday night information it ¥ ed. Tarraats “was Collins i." DB widely-known Jewish busi- " machine gun on the police nessman where they had been f. car. . . staked out. HATCHER ‘AND. “Tucker, “the only’ offigers at the scene; with an automobile, attempted, 0 block the path of the Buick”. pany of Sam but wound up ina highspeed," | Bowers Jr., Imperial Wizard bullet-punctured’ “chase, for *{ of the Imperial Knights of the °: Ku Klux Klan and now under | Tucker ducked beneath the t <a) Thomas Atbert Tarrasits 1,4 car. dashboard but Hatcher 22, of Mobile, rea ed in a caught four slugs as he leaped. Matty Hersee Hospital room: “from the patrol “cat — two ¥) ‘this morning. an armed | and possibly three shots strik- Meridian policeman at his ing im through the wind- | approximately 18 blocks — * bedside and Mississippi high ; shield, °°" ">. ‘when Tucker. ‘ranimed the’!|7J0-vear federal sentence for way patrolman posted out- | Burton was cut down bya |. Buick and _it.went “out “of 3 Slaying “of three civil © side. " purst. from the submachine ‘ control” styiking’ “an “embank. “fnants workers in” Philadel- ] e) . 2 While his condition was _ So when be emerged from a a thi police “4 Collins officers found an j listed as serious, police were J... . n was a is point, e advised by hospital oficials mearhy residence to See wha ” (charged Tarrants fired on the M-3 submachine gun in the late Sunday that he is expect- appened, omneers with the submachine "Sas a passenger. sed to survive. He was wound- Found dead on the floor ate fired until the weapon | was empty, dashed across asg nearby lawn, and “was' trying to climb over a fence when both | Chiet Roy Gunn as Mrs. | other pursuing officers caught ” Kathy Ainsworth, 25, a Jack- | jim with thelr fire. 5, Tt was unclear just where - Mrs. Ainsworth ' was , killed. Police said: it~"might have.3 happened during ‘the ‘first at » Davidson's house, or more 5 , ed in a running gunfight with ard of the Buick later was §. police following the attempted the body of a young, attractive bombing of a residence here. — woman, icentified by police condition | of J, son school teacher, whose Navyy purse Contained a loaded 25- . viation Machinist Mate 2-cf caliber pistol and membership §)--fRobert E. Burlon, who Tar} cards in both the. Americans ants is accused of machine for the Preservation of the gunning, were described as |. White Race ,and Ku Klux, = estinl critical” 2 Klan. = Hateher, hit four times with Chit Ginn gave the follow. }k_car with a ‘Winchester rifle, slugs from a German-made ! ing account of the gun battle, 7 *;..She_was, struck in the bac submachine gun, still had one * shortly after midnight Sunday * of the head and was Probably slug lodged in the membrane- | which ended in her death, the killed instantly. . - ous tissue of his heart early , Wounding of Tarrants, Hatch: Tarrants was described by’: this morning, with.a second ; er and Burton, He stated that un, as’ a‘prime ‘suspect"! in, “ slug closeby. 35 33 about: 15" officers; “wearin, i "black polo shirts had staked.’ “A team of “Jeff ‘Anderson | out the 29th ‘Avenue residence, Memorial Hospital surgeons #f” Meridian “businessman removed two bullets from his |Meyer “Davidson whea the} 3, upper abdomen during a more fs auinmobie was =e than five-hour oper I" coving , past F .: day morning but atlempt fo goers f bullets i the wick! heart, owe | when surge ee wy sumed ’ 7 the, residence,
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