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2 a ae OFTHONAL roan O it] 10-108 .f tO RNMENT UNITED STATES GO \ Memorandum | = ; Gale tp To : Mr. Belmont DATE: September 17, 1963 ee st § FROM: A. nofl nil Holes Tt ? ue \! 8 sunecr: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS LAW _ BOMBING O ENTH V4 STREET BAPTIST CHURCH” BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA SEPTEMBER 15, “1963°°" RACIAL MATTERS wenn ‘> The following information is submitted concerning 0 orts to identify the perpetrators of the bombing of the Sixteenth Sire eet Baptist Church at Birmingham, Alabama, on 9/15/63. ’ A systematic crime scene search of the area outside the church and a minute search of the immediate bomb area by Bureau Agents and Laboratory representatives on 9/16/63 disclosed no physical evidence such as a safety fuse, blasting caps, wires, fragments of a timing device or other bomb accessories. The examination of the crime scene area is continuing and debris is being Pee eee edeectal echtnhk eee alacant th the emeint af ayrlacinn far avhaann ent combed for TALC lal WHLGL Wad CLUSCAL WW WIT PULL UL CApLUDUL LUE Suvsedu laboratory examination for explosive residue. * The Birmingham Office is proceeding with the thorough neighborhood investigation and thus far has. interviewed 65 residents and shopkeepers in the vicinity of the church who were in the area at the time of the explosion and heard the blast. However, none of these individuals was able to furnish any information of value and stated that they did not notice anything out of the ordinary prior to or f after the blast. A Owners of all of the automobiles known to have peen ‘parked i in the vicinity of the church at the time of the explosion have been located and interviewed but none was able to furnish any information of possible assistane as b 78 An anonymous telephone call was received B by our Birmingham Office | from a woman on 9/ 16/63 advising that dn -the previous day she hadobserved — two Negroes . ata gacnline station on pire i he Bev vesiw ee eee the sow side of Birnie See: toe bite a an ° —. claims that she saw the whild rian give the Negroes money eae in Fqturn reggive, from them a box containing seven'sticks of dynamite. This infor inattb n checked . idly as possibl and efforts are being made to locate 4 1 - Mr, DeLoac él _ tent ” SEP 23 1963 PaaS, rl fe, Fe ,-