Narrative 3

On September 15, 1963 four girls lost their life at the 16th Street Baptist Church bobming. Four girls Denise McNair who was eleven, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson who were fourteen, and Cynthia Wesley who was also fourteen were going to sunday school classes. Twenty six children had walked into the assembly room for closing prayer when the bomb exploded. McNair's father stated the sermon was never held because of the bombing. Some say they saw a white man getting out of a turquoise Chevrolet and placing a package under the steps of the church. a short while after ten, the bomb exploded killing the four girls and leaving twenty three of them injured. A member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Robert Chambliss was identified as the bomber. On October 8, 1963 he was found not guilty for murder and only received a hundred dollar fine and six months in jail for the possession of dynamite. The case was rested and labeled unsolved until Bill Baxley was elected general of Alabama. In November of 1977 Chambliss was tried again for the bombing and this time convicted and sentenced to life in prison but died eight years later. The bombing had been blamed on the Ku Klux Klan and even though Herman Cash was dead, Thomas Blanton and Bobby Cherry  was tried and later convicted. Books and songs were dedicated to the girls in their memory.