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/ PAGE SIX. bec CONTACT QMBMMMMMBADSDEN, ALA., TO DETERMINE IF LICENSE STILL ON VEHICLE, FUNERAL OF DENISE MCNAIR, ADDIE COLLINS, AND CYNTHIA WESLEY. THE FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THREE OF THE FOUR CHILDREN KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION OF THE SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH TOOK PLACE | TODAY AT THE SIXTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE FUNERAL WAS AT THREE THIRTY PM CST AND THE CHURCH WAS FILLED TO OVERFLOWING AND THE CROWD OUTSIDE THE CHURCH ESTIMATED AT ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS. IN THE CROWD THERE WAS A GROUP OF APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED FIFTY PEOPLE FROM A NEARBY CATHOLIC CHURCH, ‘THE GROUP FORMED AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND WENT IN PROCESSION TO THE SIXTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE GROUP WAS ABOUT EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN WHITE AND NEGRO PEOPLE. THERE WERE ABOUT FIFTEEN WHITE AND NEGRO PRIESTS IN THE PROCESSION. THE CROWD WAS ORDERLY AND THERE WERE ABOUT FIFTY BIRMINGHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICERS PRESENT TO HANDLE THE CROWD AND TRAFFIC. SIX MUSLIMS ATTENDED THE FUNERAL, SOME TOOK PICTURES, AND OTHERS DISTRIBUTED MUSLIM PAPER. # “gL. KING, ROY WILKINS, RALPH ABERNATHY AND FRED SHUTTLESW WERE IN ATTENDANCE. MISCELLANEOUS, Bg AF Ne dee ee ee ee END PAGE SIX.