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2-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) (Inuwate page, name of newspaper, city and state } BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD __{Mount Clipping in Space Below) oe BIRMINGHAM, AL. Date: 9/15/93 \Esition. WEDNESDAY Pastor: Church doesn’t = ==> want to reopen case) =... Classificaton. Submitting Office. BH By William C. Singleton III Post-Herald Reporter : Birmingham civil rights leader Rev. (Indexing Abraham Woods says justice demands that the bombers of Sixteenth Street Baptist H Church be brought to trial. i But the church's current pastor, Rey | Christopher Hamlin, says the church has H little interest in reopening the case, which netted the conviction of one Ku Klux Klansman but is believed to have involved several other people. ‘ Hamlin said that many members of his congregation are not interested in another investigation which would force them to re- live the events of that terrible night. The church in downtown Birmingham ob- serves the 30th anniversary of the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing that kitied four young pisls on the heels ent revelations linking at jisman to the bombing he brother of Kiansman Henry Alexan- — \ br, who died in December, said Alexander admitted involvement in several racially midtivated crimes, including the bombing of _/ Sixteenth Street Baptist Church vo Alexander's wife said he also admjtted participating in the death of biack”truck driver Willie Edwards, who waS forced to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River in 1957 The only conviction in the church bombing came in 1977, when a jury found Klansman Robert Chambliss guilty of murder. Chamb- liss died in prison in 1983. But then-Attorney General Bill Baxley had difficulty obtaining FBI infermation to build cases against others who may have been involved in the fatal bombing, / pe Rom SEP 18 4993 | Copy Sent To FBIHQ Far oo.