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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) {indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state } THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS 7 BIRMINGHAM, AL. - Date: 9/12/93 ‘Stillerying 9 {Mount © Clipping in in Space Below} | a Title "BAP " | behind the altar’ _ ! e@ aitar Character or 157-352 Classification: Submitting Office BH indexing: The voices of four slain girls demand their killers be | brought to justice, civil rights leaders say, 30 years after the bombing of their church. By Frank Sikora News staff writer t happened at 10:22 a.m. om that balmy Sept. 15 in 1963, a Sunday that will be burned in Birmingham's memory for as long as the city stands. A bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, tearing away the lives of four black girls: Addie Mae Collins, 14, Denise McNair, 11; Carole Robertson, 14; and Cynthia Wesley, 14. The four were in the women’s lounge on the lower floor when the bomb detonated. Now, 30 years have gone by, and the church pauses to remember those who died — and wonder once again if new information could surface to bring more suspects to face murder charges. The FBI launched a massive investigation in 1963 but made no arrests. Then in 1977, Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley eden ont saain obtained an indictment against Robert Chambliss, 73, a Klan member since the 1920s with a reputation for violence. In November of that year, a jury returned a guilty verdict against Chambliss. Investigators said Chambliss, who died in prison in 1985, did not act alone and likely was aided by three or four other Klan mernbers —— perhaps more — as the bomb was set sometime during the predawn hours of Sept. 15. Late last week, the specter of the bombing surfaced again when a brother of a Montgomery Klan mernber said the Klansman admitted to being “involved” in the act. Copy Sent To FBIHQ 13 ¢- pm he cag eR, Cae te d 352 ~SFIA'S nan