10 St. 22 Min, 15 Sept 1963 Jahr - Bombing of Birmingham Church

Beschreibung:

It occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. The explosion at the church killed four girls and injured 22 others. It was committed by four known Ku Klux Klansmen and segregationists—Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Herman Frank Cash, Robert Edward Chambliss, and Bobby Frank Cherry. No prosecutions ensued until 1977, when Robert Chambliss was tried and convicted of the first degree murder.