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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11

69 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 69 pages OCR'd
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Wh reel ed. ing Maj. Bill Jones, of the stat investigative division, . by. feley. phone this morning. 1 A arse wide fund for fu- MOORE REPORTED they said! ner ral expenses and hospital dills ithey were holding the two MeN. of the dead and all the injured Ynvestigators of the Sixteenth in the church bombing and its [Street bombing that killed four! sttermath Sept. 15° now has ‘girls have been at a loss as to reached more than $3,000. Re- what kind of device was used to maining funds will be_ysed for Fetonate a ‘package of approxereetordtion of damaged buildings. mately 10 sticks of dynamite. The bomb was placed under the steps héar the rear of the church and Killed the four’ girls who were in- ‘side @ dressing room just inside the rear basement wall. About 26 ‘persois _in . the 2: Church congregation were ‘hurt “hy the blast. Two young Ne- groes were shol to death as an ‘outgrowth of the bombing. Ten days later two explosions. one a large shrapnel bomb, were set off in a Negro section on the Southside. No ane was hurt but pelice described the bombs as “work of a fiéitt“—~~ AN EXPLOSION with the esti- mated force of 10 sticks of dyna- mite occurred beneath concrete steps on the east side of the Six- teenth Street Church at 10:22 a.m. Sept, 15. A the dead and injured were _in the basement of the church. .A task force of FEI officers, ‘including bomb experts, joined , local investigaters the next day in a painstaking search of the area. Several hundred pounds of de- jbris and other material have been jsent to the FBI laboratory at ‘Washington for detailed cxamina- tion and testing. ' A Justice Department spokes- man said the FBI effort to track down the bombers is the mest in- tensive since the John Dillinger manhunt of the 1930s. A REWARD FUND already had been started for arrest and con- ‘viction of a tear gas bomber who ‘injured more than 20 shoppers ‘and employes at Loveman’s sev- al weeks earlier, ‘= >===* 3 Fhe ‘fund has risen to about
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