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. The Bombers President Joknson’s action in as- Signing Secret Service agents to all presidential candidates paid off in e Sacramento the other night when the Q vagents and California police routed ‘ ‘from Gov. Ronald Reagan's residence . #Stwo kids armed Molotov cock- ti tails. fs The malicious intent of the two <"boys was frustrated by the guards *cand because their “bombs” didn’t go “off. Tt is possible these youngsters, : caught up in the violence which has been preached and practiced by so many recently, thought they simply : were embarked-on a prank. More likely they meant real harm to the governor and his family. In any case, the use of homemade firebombs to avenge, or protest, or simply to make trouble has become murderously commonplace. ,. It doesn't matter whether the bombs are aimed at the governor of California, the Yugoslav chancery in Washington, the headquarters of an tiwar outfit in New York, a labor leader’s home in Louisiana, the house ~) of a Negro merchant in Mississippi, °/ or at a church in Birmingham. The motive is criminal and the results often lethal. Four little girls died in the bomb- ing of the church here. The Negro merchant in Mississippi also was ” killed. In the other, more recent, in- cidents, nobody was hurt, but that was sheer good fortune and no Credit to the bomb-throwers By no stretch of imagination can any of this come under “the head of free speech or airing grievances, It is plain viciousness. All the weapons controls in the world won't curb this type of crime. The bombs are easily made—a wild- eyed, radical paper in New York sev- eral months ago published a diagram of how to do it with a beer bottle and — a little gasoline. There is only one other answer: ‘Tough, aggressive police work and { the severest possible penalties, not only for tossing one of thesé things, . but for making or possessing one. ' (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) —~ TRF BIRMINGHAM NEWS 14 ~~ BIRMINGHAM POS T- HFRALD BIRMINGMAM, pore, 7-12-68 ALARAM Edition: hathon editorial Editor, Duard LeGrand tie: BAPBOMB Character: Ctasaitication: 157-352 - Submitting Office: RIRMINGHAM Co Being Investigated ; S592 252-841 “7 SEARCHED" peep SEXALED_ gy 2B JUL 2 1968 SIRWINGHAE,