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‘fiamnay—to halt after they,picked up. two white fmerttotther trouble exists,” Bout- lowing Sunday Schoct—Bite7 caught him stoning cars. A 13- questioned jhem apo the|well and Moore said in their/and song books lay shredded year-old Negro boy was shot/9°™9ing and reieased them. ejegram. — = = —=s >» _ _jand scattered through the and killed on he’ rode his The Rev. Martin Luther President Kennedy, yachting church & - -_ : King Jr., wired President Ken-{°ff Newport, R. 1, was notified" " ' - | oo bicycle in ccgupurban areal nedy from Atlanta that he was|>Y radio-telephone and At- In the main sanctuary up-' : oe going to Birmingham to plead Police Battle Crowd with Negroes to “remain non- Downtown streets were de- iolent.” serted after dark and police But he said that unless “im- urged white and Negro par- Mediate Federal steps are ” 4. ents to keep their children off|'#en” there will be “in Bir- the streets. : : mingham and Alabama the: Thousands of hysterical Ne-| Worst racial holocaust this Na- #roes poured into the area tion has ever seen.” around the church this morn- Dozens of survivors, their ing and police fought for two faces dripping blood from the hours, firing rifles into the glass that flew out of the air. to control them. church's stained glass win- When the crowd broke up, dows, staggered around the scattered shootings and ston- building in # cloud of white ings erupted through the city |4ust raised by the explosion. during the afternoon and to- The blast crushed two nearby night. ears like toys and blew out =e . windows blocks away. The Negro youth killed by) Negroes stoned cars in other police was Johnny Robinson,|.ctions of Birmingham and 16. They said he fled down an) ciice exchanged shots with a alley when they caught him Negro firing wild shotgun stoning cars. They shot him blasts ¢wo blocks from the when he refused to halt. . church. It took officers two The 13-year-old boy Killed/hours to disperse the scream- outside the city was Virgilling, surging crowd of 2000 Ne- Ware. He was shot at about)/eroes who ran to the church the same time as Robinson. | 9+ the sound of the blast. dy ordered his chief civil ights troubleshooter, Burke e the pulpit and Bible were covered with pieces of arshal], to Birmingham. At stained glass. ; decapitated. The coroner's of-! fice identified the dead as’ Denise McNair, 11; Carol Rob- ton, were being rushed in. City Police Inspector W. J. Haley said as many as 15 sticks of dynamite must have 4 been used. and Addie Mae Collins, 10. “We have talked to witnesses| AS the crowd outside, who say they saw a car drive watched the victims - being by and then speed away just|carried out, one youth broke before the bomb hit,” he said.|away and tried to touch one In Montgomery, Wallace|of the blanket-covered forms. said he had.a similar, report] “This is my sister,” he cried. and said the descriptions of|‘““My God, she’s dead.” Police the car's occupants did not|took the hysterical boy away. make clear their race. But] Mamie Grier, superintend- he served notice “on those/ent of the Sunday School responsibie that every 1aw|said when the bonib went off enforcement agency of thisi“peopie began screaming, al- State will be used to appre-/most stampeding” to get out- hend them.” side. Th The bombing was the 2ist sround in a daze, aca walked in Birmingham in eight years,! One of the inj and the first to kill. None ofia hospital was a ed taken to the pombings have been:mMany others cut by flying Shortly after the bombing! a+ Jeast 20 persofs s a glass and other debris were police broke up a rally offpurt badly enough by the|, AS Police struggled to hold/not treated at hospitals. white students protesting thelblast to be treated at hos-|>2¢k the crowd, the blasted| yin in Four Weelt}——< i : church’s pastor, the Rev. John 7, desegregation of three Bir-lnitals. Many more, cut and|;y Cross, grabbed a mega-| It was the fourth bombing in! +: , ngham, A motorcade of militant adult|treated privately.* “(phone and walked back and) Or third since th g A forth, telling the crowd, “The e@ current | segregationists apparently en] (Associated Press reported] __):.’ ; ing|school dese ti isis’ police are doing everything gregation — crisis route to the student rally wasithat among the injured In came to # boil Sent. 4 disbanded they can. Please go home. pt, 4 isbanded. _ subsequent shocting were @ “The Lord is our shepherd,”| Desegregation of schools in, “poriee patrols, augumented white man injured by a Negro. he sobbed. “We shall not|Birmingham, Mobile and Tus: by 300 State troopers sent into) Another white man was/iiy» ' kegee was finally brought; the city by Gov. George C.J wounded by a Negro who at- The only stained glass about last Wednesday when! Wallace, quickly broke up alijtempted to rok him, according window in the church that re-|President Kennedy federalized gatherings of white and Ne-|to police.) mained in its frame showea|the National Guard, Some of groes. Wallace sent the] Mayor Albert Boutwell, Christ leading a group of little the Guardsmen in Birmingham troopers and ordered 500 Na-ltears streaming down his| hijgren. The face of Christ|2° still under Federal orders. tional Guardsmen to stand by|cheeks, announced the city|was blown out. - Wallace said the ones he at Birmingham armories. had asked for help. ‘After the police dispersed|@erted today were units of King arrived in the city. to-| «y¢ js a tragic event,” Bout-|the hysterical crowds, work- the Guard “not now feder- night and went into a confer* well said. “It is just sickening men with pickaxes went into alized.” ence with the Rev. Fred Shutlthat a few individuals could|the wrecked basement of the|nas cerecey 2 $52000 reread { tlesworth, a leader in the civillegmmit such a horrible church. Parts of brightly The City Council held an|such a thing has so gravely) were strewn about in one Sun- other $5000. emergency ipeeting to discussjconcerned the public . . . "jday Sehoel room, and blood ; 1 safely measures for the city,!His voice broke and he could| stained the floors. Chunks of|Dr. King Berates Wallace but rejected proposals for ainot go on. concrete the size of footballs} Byt Dr. King wired Wallace curfew, a Boutwell and Police Chief|littered the basement. that “the blood of four little Dozens of persons were in-|Jamie Moore requested the} The bomb apparently wentlenildren ... is on your hands. jured when the bomb went offiState assistance in a telegram] off in an unoccupied basement!Your irresponsible and mis- in the church, which. heldjto Wallace. . : room and blew down the wail,/suided actions have created 400 Negroes at the time, in-] “While the situation appears|sending stone and debris fly-in Birmingham and Alabama cluding 80 children. It was|to be well under control ofjing like shrapnel into a room|the atmosphere that his in- Youth Day at the church. [local law enforcement officers|where children were re-assem-|duced continued violence and; A few hours later, | police|at this time, the possibility of|bling for closing prayers fol!now murder.” -- . arc ; - 6 os torney General Robert F. Ken-lstairs, which holds about 500: One of the dead girls was! ertson, 14; Cynthia Wesley, 14, _