Word: chambliss
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...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...
Walk along the western edge, and you find the dead of World War II, many of whom perished young. Charles Finley of the class of 1943, killed in Normandy in 1944. Henry Benitez of the class of '42, killed at Falaise in '44. Turner Chambliss Jr., '43, killed June 6, 1944. And so on, until you turn a corner and start finding George Tow and Samuel Coursen of the class of '49, killed in action in Korea, 1950. Over behind the Viele monument are the graves from Vietnam. There is a row in which 10 of 11 graves are occupied...
...Bronx Bombers started banging away at Sox ace Bill Campbell with one out in the top of the eighth, though. Bang, Jackson slapped a rope up the middle for a single. Bang, Chris Chambliss sliced a double down the left-field line. Bang, Graig Nettles took first on an intentional walk. Enter Piniella, already the owner of two RBIs on the night, and bang--Campbell mowed both him and Willie Randolph down on a strikeout...
Federal and local investigators may be about to shed some new light on that grim day. The FBI and Birmingham police announced last week they had reopened their investigation into the bombing after obtaining unspecified "new information." A single former Ku Klux Klansman, Robert Chambliss, was convicted in the case in 1977, but there has long been evidence suggesting he had at least three accomplices. Investigators received their new leads about a year ago, and have been pursuing them for months, but they decided to make the investigation public when they began conducting interviews of witnesses...
...that we would like to heal," said Joseph Lewis, FBI special agent in charge in Birmingham. "We feel we have an opportunity to do so this time and we want to take one last shot at it." Since the 1963 attack, only one person, Ku Klux Klansman Robert Edward Chambliss, has been convicted. The FBI believes at least three other men were involved in the blast, which took the lives of an 11-year-old girl and three 14-year-old girls...