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P| eve Ivey JAS eet san tedaase ik ee injured. The church is located at the corner of 6th Avenue and 16th Street, North, near the downtown section of the city. The point of impact was outside the church, a brick building, on the 16th Street side under some concrete steps and against the wall. Damage to the church building was estimated to be $30,000 - $40,000 and undetermined amount of damage to surround ing buildings. This church had been a meeting place in the past for racial demonstrators, This bombing, one of a series in the recent past in Birmingham, is possibly attributable to racial extremists, The crime scene search has failed to develop evidence indicating that the explosion was detonated by any specific type of detonator, It is unknown at this point whether a fuse or a timing mechanism was used, Birmingham newspapers on September 18, 1963, state that a fund for rewards in this case has reached $76,000, UNKNOWN SUBJECT; Explosion at 1601 Center Street, South, Birmingham, Alabama, September 25, 1963, BOMBING MATTERS Birmingham file 157-407 About 1:30 AM, September 25, 1963, persons in the vicinity of 1601 Center Street, South, a well maintained Negro neighborhood of medium priced homes, reported an expio- sion to the Police Department. At 1:45 AM, a second explo- sion of greater intensity, possibly several sticks of dynamite occurred at the corner adjacent to the captioned address. This second explosion shattered a telephone pole, blew a small crater in the curbing and showered the neighborhood with high oxidized nuts, bolts and other metal fragments, which caused extensive shrapnel] damage to surrounding property but no injuries. Laboratory reports dynamite residues on fragments. First explosion believed to have occurred within ten feet of the second and was believed to be lure to cause neighbors and police to be injured by the second blast. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. 4