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ln April 17, 1964 Honorable J. Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, D.c. . OG dt Cap len @ 7 Dear Mr. Hoover: Church, A “wy } The Associated Press’ on the occasion I thé orfe-day “Sh visit to Indiana by Governor George ©. Wallace Governor of Alabama on April 15, reports that Governor Matthew E. Welsh said of Governor Wallace: "This is the man whose beliefs were responsible for the deaths of innocent children in the bombing of a Sunday School class." The statement refers, ofcourse, to the bombing of the Negro Church in Birmingham last summer resulting in the death of two or three Negro children. This statement is only the latest, regular, seemingly unending use of this unsolved, heinolisr crime to slur, indict and condemn people of the entire south, af ¥F not Alabama alone, collectively or individually as the occasio may dictate. ‘ TES The news media at the time of this particular bombing, as well as most of the many others that have occurred in Burt Birmingham in recent years, reported that the FBI was investigating but so far as the public is informed neither this particular bombing nor any of the others have been solved. orc ee This situation is conspiciously mystifying when one notes that similar crimes in other areas of the nation have been and are being solved by the FBI with expediency and apparent ease. The latest example of this is the Florida East Coast Railroad i bombings and the bombing of a Negro home in Jacksonville, Fla. No criticism, direct or implied, is here intended of the FBI. The institution you head is the finest in Washington - barring none. I realize that you, cannot in any way control the use others make of tive. incidentshéere described. But if there is any information you may properly give me as to why the FBI has been unable to solve any of these /Birmingham bombings it will Ty /S) = }o3. 5 lent