Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dimmed cabin light, his dark, impassive face seemed enlivened only by his big, shiny, compelling eyes. Suddenly, the plane shuddered in a pocket of severe turbulence. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion and said: "I guess that's Birmingham down below...
...BIRMINGHAM: Eric Robert Rudolph, the abortion clinic bombing suspect on the run from the FBI somewhere in the moutains of North Carolina, has just become three times the fugitive. Steel plates used in the Alabama bombings and bombs at the Olympics and at an Atlanta abortion clinic have been traced to Rudolph through steel plates cut at a plant where a friend of Rudolph's works, FBI officials are saying...
...Unfortunately, Rudolph is no closer to custody than he was four weeks ago, when he fled his house upon learning the FBI had named him as a suspect. "The agents here are acknowledging that he won't be caught anytime soon," says TIME reporter Greg Fulton from Birmingham. "But now that the other two bombs are part of the case, Washington's going to have to start dealing with the media -- beginning with why Rudolph's name was put out." Fulton says the Birmingham team expects the Washington FBI to hold a press conference soon...
...most terrible images in the film are the black-and-white postmortem photos of the girls, naked and caked with blood. But there are other unforgettable moments--old footage of the white tank that "Bull" Connor, Birmingham's notorious police chief, drove around the town; a recent interview with an aged George Wallace, who repeats over and over that his black attendant is his best friend; Carole Robertson's mother Alpha explaining how she has come to forgive...
...bombing, of course, had causes and consequences that went beyond the lives of the victims. For years the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth had led protests against segregation in Birmingham. Eventually, he called on King for help, and the demonstrations intensified. Robert Chambliss responded, hoping his act of terror, the 21st bombing in Birmingham since 1956, would leave blacks begging for segregation. In fact, the blast energized the civil rights movement. Lee's eloquent film does justice to the young martyrs and to those who guaranteed that the girls' deaths, while tragic, would not also be meaningless...