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Birmingham, Alabama Sixteenth — Part 29

249 pages · May 22, 2026 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: Birmingham, Alabama Sixteenth · 244 pages OCR'd
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- ROBERT EDWARD CHAMBLISS : ROBERT EDWARD CHAMBLISS » 2505 32nd Avenue, North, Birmingham, Alabama, (phone 323-5140); age 59 years; born January 14, 1904, Pratt City,. Birmingham, Alabama; employed as truck driver by Rebuilt Auto Parts Company, 919 outh, Birmingham, Alabama, (phone 322- 23579). CHAMBLISS is considered a logical suspect, based upon his past activities and associations; his extreme anti- integration views; his acts of physical violence against Negroes; and his free use of dynamite in terrorizing tactics, which has earned for him the nickname of "Dynamite Bob", Formerly employed by the City in the Garbage Department, CHAMBLISS was discharged because of unfavorable publicity, brought about by the brutality of his acts, * CHAMBLISS has been active in Ku Klux Klan acti- vities, since at least 1946, was Exalted Cyclops of the Klavern until 1951, when he abandoned open Ku Klux Klan activities because of unfavorable publicity. CHAMBLISS’ has been interviewed at length by FBI Agents on September 28, 1963, and October 11, 1963, Me which time he denied participation or knowledge of the present bombings. He has been the subject of numerous surveillances during which time it was established that he has been in contact with known members of the Ku Klux Klan and with well known pro-segregationist leaders of the Birmingham area. From interview, CHAMBLISS has admitted association with these people and has identified himself as being a strong segregationist. It has been established that CHAMBLISS was at oe noes or in the immediate vicinity on the morning of Satember 15, 1963, th ih) c ‘O
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