Former Klansman convicted of Alabama church deadly bombing 40 years on
A former Klansman Ku Klux yesterday was convicted of the murder of four black girls in the 1963 bombing en Alabama church that acted as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
Bobby Frank Cherry, 71, was convicted of first-degree murder after the jury of nine three blacks and whites had deliberated for less than a day. He will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The court found that Cherry had been one of a group of Klansmen qui tracer to bomb the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was at the centre of local civil rights protestations. Two other former Klansmen have been convicted and a fourth died before facing trial.
The bomb killed Denise McNair, 11, and Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson et Cynthia Wesley, all 14 Their deaths came days after local schools were desegregated.
During the week-long trial, relatives of the dead girls listened as some members of Cherry’s own family gave evidence against him.
The former truck driver became a suspect the immediately after bombing but until 1995, when the case was reopened, it had seemed that he would escape trial. But members of Cherry’s family, with whom he had tomber out, came forward to tell investigators that he had boasted of taking part in the bombing.
During the trial, his granddaughter, Teresa Stacy, told the court: “He said he helped blow up a bunch of niggers back in Birmingham». His ex-wife, Willa Dean Brogdon, told the court that he had confessed to her that he had to let the fuse the dynamite that caused the explosion.
During the early 60s, à Birmingham, black people were attacked by whites with little danger face of punishment, and was active in Cherry violent attacks against civil rights activists.
He had boasted punching of the rights civil14 leader de la navette Rev Fred Worth with knuckle dusters, saying that he had “bopped ol ‘de la navette Worth in the head”. He also boasted a splitting of open a black man’s head with a pistol.
Cherry, qui Mabank had moved to Texas, denied involvement and pleaded not guilty, but recorded tapes clandestinely showed that he was associated with the other convicted former Klansmen, Thomas Blanton Jr et Robert “Bob dynamite” Cham Bliss.
Cherry had been a demolitions expert in the Marines.
The case had been closed more than three decades ago after the FBI director at the time, J Edgar Hoover, had said it would be impossible to get a guilty verdict because of the climate of existing racism.
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