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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 2
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Af termatii Us f Bombing Tho Satholte Week
Birmingham, Ala.
(Father William James, Diocesan Confra- dreds of people frantically rushing to a street
ternity Director, here writes of what he wit- already mobbed with a swaying pushing crowd
nessed and felt immediately after the bomb- and a few policemen, some of whom wert
ing ef a Negro Baptist Church in Birming- auxiliaries with steel helmets covering their
ham last Sunday morning. Father James hap- heads,
pened to be fravelling just three blocks People, old and young. were crving. Some ;
away when the bomb went off. He is a native seemed dazed and completely bewildered. Oth- :
ef Birmingham.) ers were cursing and shouting al an enemy |:
. tain. : ~ oa who seemed to be face to face with them. Re-
MN sounded like a score of supersonic jet spectfully, most moved aside as [ got closer
planes had simultaneously broken the sound to a rather latge church, the Sixth Avenue
barrier People poured from their homes to Baptist Church. from which people were stream
scan the sky. The almost deserted Sunday = ing and into which ambulance drivers and
Toarning streets quickly became crowded with others were already going.
people stl uncertain: what had caused the About ten cars parked next to the side en-
deafening blast. trance of the church looked like they had been
T drove on for about a block until [ saw a dragged there from a wunk vard. One of them,
man pouting fa what seemed to be a cloud of seemingly blown out into the middle of the
sminke. slowly rising fram a spet about 4 blocks Street. was a pitiful sight. Rocks and large
avay Turning quickly Jedreve inward the area sinnes and pieces of concrete were every: _ .
and parked my car. Thegan walking the short ubere, From a building across the strezt shre: s . ;
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