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Mount Cliypian: a Space Below) Priest E ye-Witness To... — erieth OF Ba Page 1 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 . ; tyiee ba an Gita now swarming with hun. i - 9/20/63 | tT Po H Auth * Is foditeer: i i “+: UNSUB; Bombing of | 16th St. Baptist d Church, VAC ile Ala Charicter: SMATTERS Classahic rion: MO 157-416 | cone hae aot Fen SE colt SO SE, Sk ORS eRe LP Tae 9g and A Sage Ae Ree ce a de Ee ote le po ot Ee