Right now I am just finishing my research for my article about the Birmingham Church Bombing.  Although it seems like a lifetime, it was only two days ago that my boss told me to take a train down to Birmingham, Alabama, where they just recieved word that a bomb had gone off.  My boss could not explain any farther, and so wanted me to write on article for the New York Times about the bombing.  The date was September 15, 1963.  I went home immediatley and packed my typewriter, camera, a couple pencils, my journal,  and of course clothes for the journey.  I boarded the train and prepared for the long adventure ahead of me. 

    I got off the train 23 hours later, and went straight to 16th Street Baptist Church, the scene of the crime.  As a reporter on a hot case, you do not get much sleep, so luckily I had slept for most of the train ride, because I was going to need it.  When I arrived at the church, it seemed as if a meteor had crashed, and every inspector, reporter, and law enforcement officer had rushed to the very place that I was standing right now.  There were blacks mourning and wailing, it was a horrible scene of such destruction and sorrow.  There were ambulances and firefighters seaarching the area.  I am thinking to myself, how cruel can you be to commit an act of such hatred and ill-will? 

    I take out my notebook and a pencil and immediatley start taking notes.  One of my contacts is there to meet me, and he fills me in on the basics.  He tells me that at aproximatley 10:22 a.m., a box holding 122 sticks of dynamite, that was placed by the church by a man in a white and torquise chevrolet, blew up.  Four girls were killed, Denis McNair who was eleven years old, Cynthia Wesley who was fourteen, Carole Robertson who was also fourteen, and Addie Mae Collins who also was fourteen years old, during Sunday school.  23 other people were injured. 

    The police's first suspect was Alabama governer George Wallace, for the murder because only one week before the bombing, he told us at the New York Times office that for integration to be stopped, Alabama needed a few first-class funerals.  Wallace has been found not guilty, and just this morning police learned from a witness that it was Robert Chambliss, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, that had placed the box in front of the church on the morning of September 15.  Right now, as I am writing my article for the New York Times, Chambliss is under investigation and will soon be tried for four cases of murder and possessing 122 sticks of dynamite without a permit.  Hopefully soon, evil will be brought to justice.