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~ "0-19 (Rev. 5-27-63) “ {FBI Reportedly Knows | Birmingham Bomber*’ NEW YORK, May 30 (AP). who planted the bomb two The Saturday Evening Post| nights before the bombing. eported yesterday that FBI} “His car was parked two fficials know who planted the/blocks away from the church on explosive that killed four young|the Sunday morning the bomb Negro girls in a Birmingham | went off.” (Ala.) church last September,) «yister x is under constant but don’t have enough evidence! surveillance, the Post report, by for a conviction. orge McMillan, quoted a “Law enforcement officials official as saying. know who the bomber and his accomplices are—have known Hates Police “Of course,” the official was | ord Ge police for months,” the Post reported. “But they have not been able to/ quoted, “we can’t literally stay put together the kind of an!with him 24 hours a day... airtight case they need to take|but we put him to bed every ‘Mister X’ to court.” night and check him first thing es Birmingham, FBI Agent\every morning . . . he hates us, ay Faisst said his office would|but he hates the FBI even have no comment on the article. fworse... Birmingham Police Chief Jamie| Mr. McMillan wrote that Moore could not be reached for|Police told him “Mister X comment. - makes almost his entire living Officials stated recently,|{rom doing jobs for hate move- ments, but has never been aoevg to ebeck out all leads in|f0und at the scene of the Birm-’ what has been one of the most |igham bombing. distin .. : , roe) “He has a "4 iminghama a in Bir- physical characteristic,” a. detective was quoted as say- No Charges Made ° ; : ing . The report No one has been charged with|time and place that cannot yet any of Birmingham’s raciallne revealed, a group of men in- bombings—more than 40 since cluding the man who made the World War If. Three white men bomb, the man who placed it were arrested in September and! and everyone who knew the’ convicted on charges of illegallidentities of those involved possession of dynamite, met.” nas prosecution attempts to link} “7¢ any one of you ever them with bombings were futile. |taiks,” Mr. McMillan quoted the. The men have appealed their|jeader of the meeting as saying, convictions. “it will be the kiss of death for } The Post report said policelyou. ... We join hands here jand FBI officials, who bave/and now in swearing that each | conducting an intensive/of us takes a vow to kill the ; ber 15, 1963, tragedy at the/to the police.” { nas On salle we ’ Sixteenth Street Baptist Church,| “And they weren’t kidding, aw have enough | evidence to believe|either,” a policeman was re ; . a ‘Mister X’: ortedtobave said. J, | My Pe, ;‘Planned the . . . bombing at R cee ~ ver oy a meeting in Birmingham two —_ weeks before it happened. “Was at the house of the mex rtRT ann aT ReCLOSURS : said that “at a , Tolson Belmont Mohr Casper Callahan Conrad DeLoach Evans Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy i The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Datly New The Evening Star _ New York Herald Tribune rr, : New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Datly News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World Date MAY 30 1964 -