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...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...
...left Bible class early and were about to go upstairs to help run the adult service. But before they got there, a timed-explosive device planted under the church steps ripped massive holes in the side of the building, sending stone, glass and metal flying in every direction. Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carol Robertson--ages 11 to 14--died in the blast. Even during the bloodiest days of racial conflict in the South, even in a city so beset by explosives that it was nicknamed Bombingham, this was a uniquely shocking crime. Recalls Representative John Lewis...
...rather fitting that Montana is retiring just as the N.F.L. is gearing up for the draft that begins on Saturday, April 22. This is a particularly good year for quarterbacks, what with Kerry Collins of Penn State, Steve ("Air") McNair of Alcorn State, Rob Johnson of usc and John Walsh of Brigham Young all projected to go in the first round. Maybe one of them is the next Joe Montana. Bill Walsh, who held a special camp for the quarterback prospects two weeks ago, thinks John Walsh "throws much like Joe Montana." According to Wyche, "McNair is a lot like...
VENUE: Fort McNair ; Kennebunkport...
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