Word: birmingham
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...didn't act much like a man on the run. Not at first. Ten hours after last month's fatal bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., Eric Robert Rudolph strolled into a video store near his mobile home in the mountains of North Carolina, his hair still damp from a shower, and rented an action-adventure movie. He returned it the next morning and rented another tape. "He's always been very prompt," says clerk Dedra McGrady, "in returning his rentals...
...Sept. 15, 1963, a bomb went off at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing Denise McNair, 11, and Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, all 14. It was a Sunday morning, and the four girls, dressed in white, were in the church basement, preparing to attend Sunday school and the monthly Youth Day service. As the panicked survivors fled from the explosion and police and ambulances arrived, the man convicted of the crime years later stood across the street enjoying the commotion...
...BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: One thing the FBI doesn't want to find when Eric Robert Rudolph is finally apprehended in the rainy backwoods of North Carolina's Smoky Mountains: a rented videotape...
...search for the fugitive named as a witness to the Birmingham abortion clinic bombing enters its fourteenth frustrating day, FBI agents decline to discuss the video that may reveal a bureau blunder. TIME writer Greg Fulton reports that the fugitive allegedly rented the tape at a store near his home on the night of the bombing. "That would suggest he only went on the run after the FBI went public with his name," says Fulton. In other words, if Rudolph's name hadn't been broadcast on TV that night, he might have been home when investigators arrived the next...
...Behind the Birmingham Bomb An off-duty policeman was killed in Birmingham, Ala., in what is believed to be the first-ever fatal bombing of an abortion clinic. Is there an Atlanta connection...