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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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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) Klansman to church _(Mount Clipping n Space Below) (indicate page, name of BIRMINGHAM, bombing FBI officials from Washington will be in Montgomery next week to begin inquiry into the ever-widening case of a Ku Klux Klan- sman whose brother has implicated him in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church 30 years ago. Henry Alexander, 61, who died in Decem- ber, has been linked by family members and court records to two racial murders, several bombings and a sniping incident. He has also been identified as an FBI informant. It began when his common-law w Diane Alexander, told Montgomery television station WSFA that her terminally iil husband con- fessed in December that he had taken part in tied ‘Toate: 9/10/93 |Edition. pPRTDAY BOMBING" |Character or Classification Submitting Office BH (Indexing — path of a black truck ver, Willie Edwards, 24, Va in 1957 Edwards was forced at St gunpoint to jump from a bridge into the Alabama River. His body was found three months later. In a new twist, an older brother, identified by WSFA Alexander, said Henry Alexander told him of other incidents, includ ing W Being “involved” in the bombing of Six- teenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham ‘on Sept. 15, 1963, which killed four black girls. @ The torture murder of a black man in Cof- fee County in the 1950s; in that case, the vic- tim was placed in a barrel in which nails were driven, thea rolled down a hill Efforts to reach “Sonny” Alexander were ps da352- v7 -/2) Copy Sent To FBIHQ newspaper, city and state } THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS AL. tite "KLANSMAN TIED TO CHURCH
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