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\ FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) ~~ Also King, Keritiédy slayings. ey entree Church bombing talk recorded by police _ —“By ANDREW KILPATRICK News staff writer The bombing of Birmingham‘: 's Six- teenth Street Baptist Church in 1963—as | well as thé possibility of killing Presi- dent John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—were discussed in a 20-minute conversation which was recorded by a room bug planted ina Miami hotel room Nov. 9, 1963, aceord- ing to Miami police. The conversation was between a po- lice informer and a “‘states’ rights” advocate, ——<—— The Miami police, because they dia not have jurisdiction over the crimes, said they turned the information over to the FBI. But an FBI spokesman in Washing- ton D.C., who recently indicated the tape was ‘not a good lead, said he could not really comment about it because Sen. Frank Church's U.S. Senate Intel- ligence Committee is studying the Kennedy assassination. HE SAID information about the tape had.beep turned over to thertareen Contnitssion, which iavestigated . Kennedy’s assassination, and he said questions about the tape would have to be addressed to Warren Commission | members. | But the 14-volume Warren Commis- . sionnepart makes no mentianabthe | tape. Tape. And J. Lee Rankin of New York | City, general counsel for the Warren | Commission, said Friday, ‘‘I don't re- ° call such a tape,” and he said informa- tion about the tape had not come to him. Others who served on the Warren Com- mission said they had no recollection of the tape. In the Miami conversation, which took place 55 days after the church | bombing, and 13 days before the Kenne- dy assassination, the states’ rights advocate describes a now-dead Tennes- see Ku. Klux Klan official whotalked ata haw tha abuwah wine hamhed = KENNEDY == - Piomen pimon talking in the hoseLreom diécussed ways to kill Kennedy..."best way would be off a building with a high- powered rifle.” AND THAT'S how Kennedy was kill- ed in Dallas, Tex., Nov. 22, 1963. The Birmingham News recently interviewed now-retired Miami police- man Everett Key who planted the bug, and The News recently listened to the bareljeudible tape while checking number of leads about the chure! bombing. Both fi men who took part in the hotel conversation are dead. But before the states’ rights advocate died, a Miami News reporter, Bill Barry, now a free lance writer, inter- viewed him by phone. Barry said the man at first denied knowing anything about plans to kill Kennedy, but he apparently soon realized the Barry’s questions were based on the tape poli i hadleiBarry hear. oer em 157- [O25 = I7S (indicate page, nome of newspaper, city and state.) 1 The Birmingham New Birmingham, Ala. pate: 3/14/76 Edtion: Sunday Authorfindrew Kilpatr Edttor: John W. Blcom tite; BAPBOMB Character: or Clecsitication: Submitting Office: Birming A(X Kpeing Investigated