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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22
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FBI officials from Washington will be in
Montgomery next week to begin inquiry into
the ever-widening case of a Ku Kiux Kian-
sman whose brother has implicated him in the
bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist
Church 30 years ago.
Henry Alexander, 61, who died in Decem-
ber, has been linked by family members and
court records to two racial murders, several
bombings and a sniping incident. He has also
been identified as an FBI informant.
It began when his common-law wife, Diane
Alexander, told Montgomery television station
WSFA that her terminally Wl husband con-
fessed in December that he had taken part in
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In a new twist, an older brother, identified
by WSFA as “Sonny” Alexander, said Henry
Alexander told him of ather incidents, includ-
ing:
@ Being “involved” in the bombing of Six-
teenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
on Sept. 15, 1963, which killed four black girls.
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fee County in the 1950s; in that case, the vic-
tim was placed in a barrel in which nails were
driven, then rolled down a hill.
Efforts to reach “Sonny” Alexander were
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