Word: birmingham
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...remembers everything about that day," Jones said. "But when it comes to that night, he gets fuzzy." Blanton's alibis shifted from his being in various restaurants to simply driving around Birmingham. The state contended that Blanton met with other Klansmen Sept. 13 under a bridge on the Cahaba River and made the bomb that detonated at the church. The jury, composed of eight white women, three black women and one black man, agreed, and gave Blanton four life sentences...
...tapes, Blanton boasts, "I was on the corner watching the big blast." As he listened in the Birmingham courtroom to the nearly four-decades-old recording, Burns removed his glasses and wiped at his eyes...
...Will the conviction bring an end to the nightmarish memory that has haunted Birmingham all these years? Willoughby Anderson, 22, a Harvard graduate from Birmingham who wrote a thesis on the church bombing, isn't sure. "I don't think justice is possible after 38 years," she says. "But I think this is important for Birmingham just to be talking about this painful and embarrassing moment of our history...
However, the Rev. Abraham Lincoln Woods, president of the Birmingham chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was more positive about the result. "It makes a statement around the nation and the world. If a guilty person can go without being brought to justice it means that the life of a black is not as valuable as a white...
...advised me that maniacalarmy.org was trying to get into my computer. I checked out the domain name, and it belongs to a computer company in Birmingham, Ala. The people who work for the company may be perfectly innocent, although they have been dodging my phone calls. Still, as long as maniacs of any kind can access my computer through my phone line, I'll be keeping the firewall...