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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) __ {Mount Clipping in Space Below} {Indicate page, name of newspaper. city and state.) THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS BIRMINGHAM, AL. | ‘Still crying» behind the altar’ The voices of four slain girls demand their killers be brought to justice, civil rights leaders say, 30 years after the bombing of their church. By Frank Sikora News staff writer that balmy Sept. 15 in 1963, a v that will be burned in memory for as Jong as the city stands. A bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, tearing away the lives of four black girls: ‘Addie Mae Collins, 14; Denise McNair, 11; Carole Robertson, 14; and ‘Cynthia Wesley, 14 The four were in the women’s jounge on the lower floor when the bomb detonated. Now, 30 years have gone by, and the church pauses to remember those who died — and wonder once again if new information could surface to bring more suspects to face murder charges. The FBI jaunched a massive 1 t happened at [0:22 a.m.on investigation in 1963 but made no arrests. Then in 1977, Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley obtained an indictment against Robert Chambliss, 73, a Klan Os with a reput. November of that year, a jury returned a guilty verdict against Chambliss. Investigators said Chambliss, who died in prison in 1985, did not act alone and likely was aided by three or four other Klan members — perhaps more — as the bomb was set sometime during the predawn hours of Sept. 15. Late last week, the specter of the bombing surfaced again when a brother of a Montgomery Klan member said the Klansman admitted to being “involved” in the act Copy Sent To FBIHO loate: 9/12/93 Edition SUNDAY Title “BAPBOMB" Character or 157-352 Classificaton Supmitting Office BH indexing 15 0- 352 -sF}-3%