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3-350 (Rev. 5-881) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) 4 Pastor: ‘Church doesn’t want to reopen case By William C. Singleton TI Post-Heraid Reporter Birmingham civil rights leader Rev. Abraham Woods says justice demands that the bombers of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church be brought to trial. But the church’s current paster, Rev Christopher Hamlin, says the church has little interest in reopening the case, which netted the conviction of one Ku Klux Klansman but is believed te have involved several other people. ‘ [ Hamtin said that many members of his congregation are not interested in another investigation which would force them to re- live the events of that terrible night. The church in downtown Birmingham ob- serves the 30th anniversary of the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing tha an the heels cent revelations linking a he brother of Klansman Henry Alexan- dér, who died in December, said Alexander \ abynitied involvement in several racially ) motivated crimes, including the bombing of _- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Alexander's wife said he also admjtted participating in the death of biack“truck driver Willie Edwards, who was forced to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River in 1957. The only conviction in the church bombing came in 1977, when a jury found Klansman Robert Chambliss guilty of murder. Chamb- liss died in prison in 1985. But then-Attorney General Bill Baxley had difficulty obtaining FBI information to build cases against others who may have been involved in the fatal bombing. (inucate page, name of newspaper, city and state.} BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD BIRMINGHAM, AL. Date. 9/15/93 Title: "BAPBOMB" Character: or 157-352 Classification: Submitting Office: BH indexing 2 AE ie mare TE ree ee Fai Dag