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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22

69 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 67 pages OCR'd
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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) (Mount Clipping in Space Below} ee ee ey (Indicate page, name of BIRMINGHAM, bombing 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 To FBJHQ | ‘wate: 9/10/93 Edition: PRIDAY lansman tied ©.” Tite: "KLANSMAN BOMBING" Character Submitting Office: BH newspaper, city and state.) THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS AL. TIED TO CHURCH Indexing: ea the death of a black truck Su driver, Willie Edwards, 24, fee in 1957. t Edwards was forced at Mr gunpoint to jump from a bridge into the Alabama River. His body was found three months later. 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. W@ The torture murder of a black man in Cof- 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 Copy Sent Loerie 2 eee rater neg arte mo oe FSi Gs
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