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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 9

125 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 124 pages OCR'd
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i ' FUNERAL SERVICES On September 17 and 18, 1963, the funeral services Vex of the bombing victims, held | at St. John's AME Church, 7th Avenue and 17th Street, and 6th Avenue Baptist Church, res ane: were “ - Special Agents i a consisted of church services and procession to the cemetery which recelved heavy coverage from all types of news media. Many white families, including city officials, attended church services. The churches were filled to capacity and hundreds of Negro people lined the streets outside. Both services were held in a very orderly fashion and uniformed city police handled the traffic detail. ; several plain clothes city, county and state ” officers were noted in the crowd outside the church, ‘ ° Approximately 10 cars, mostly unmarked, bearing four uniformea state Troopers to a car, were cruising the area of the churches. otate Troopers were not wearing their hard hats and no weapons other than side arms were noted, except on September 18, 1963, Troopers on outlaying streets carried rifles and shotguns. No suspicious cars were observed and cars bearing white occupants were determined to be mostly persons attending the funerals, newsmen, or the normal fiow of afternoon traffic.
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