Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named Brigadier General G. Reid Doster, commanding general of the Alabama Air National Guard, as the man "in charge of tactical air operations" for the invasion. Doster, said Hutchison, has "plenty to tell." But instead of telling, Doster referred newsmen to Albert C. Persons, managing editor of the Birmingham Examiner, and cousin of retired Army Major General Wilton B. Persons, who was President Eisenhower's top legislative liaison aide...
...four flyers were Alabamans, residents of the Birmingham area and onetime employees of the Hayes Aircraft Corp. there. Riley Shamburger, 36, was a major in the Alabama Air National Guard and a World War II veteran, with more than 12,000 flying hours. Thomas Willard Ray, 30, was a former Air Force staff sergeant. Leo Baker, 35, had been an Air Force tech sergeant and a flight engineer for Hayes. Wade Carroll Gray, 38, had been a Hayes test pilot...
...month; the others received $1,900. The four Alabamans left their homes in mid-January, telling their families that their mission was secret. In proper cloak-and-dagger style, their mail was sent and received through a general-delivery box in Chicago. Most of them returned to Birmingham only once, for a single day in March. The next month came the invasion. According to Mansfield, the four volunteered to replace exhausted Cuban pilots during the Bay of Pigs struggle, and were killed when their bomber was shot down by Cuban T-33 jets...
...days after the invasion fiasco, Carlson appeared in Birmingham and informed the airmen's wives that their husbands were lost and presumed dead. He provided few other details. "I had no idea my husband was even down there," recalls Mrs. Wade Gray. "I was looking for him to come home any day." Adding to the Administration cover-up try was Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who last January flatly denied that any Americans had been killed in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Hearing that, Shamburger's mother wrote President Kennedy: "If no Americans were involved, where...
...Step Backward? Anglican committeemen, high and low churchmen alike, were surprisingly hopeful about bringing the merger off. Said the Rt. Rev. George Sinker, provost of the Diocese of Birmingham: "I think this is the finest opportunity we have had since we turned John Wesley out of the Church of England." The Rev. Leslie Davison, president of the Methodist Conference, went so far as to say: "Denominations have fulfilled their...