Bobby Frank Cherry, also a former Klansman, was indicted in 2001 along with Blanton. Herman Frank Cash died in 1994 without having been charged. was tried in 2001 and found guilty at age 62 of four counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison. In 1977 former Ku Klux Klansman Robert “Dynamite Bob” Chambliss was indicted in the murder of all four girls, tried and convicted of the first-degree murder of Denise McNair, and sentenced to life in prison. As a result, no federal charges were filed in the ’60s.” Although Chambliss was convicted on an explosives charge, no convictions were obtained in the 1960s for the killings.
Also, at that time, information from our surveillances was not admissible in court. Blanton, Jr., all KKK members-but witnesses were reluctant to talk and physical evidence was lacking. Chambliss, Bobby Frank Cherry, Herman Frank Cash, and Thomas E. According to a later report from the Bureau, “By 1965, we had serious suspects-namely, Robert E. Blanton Jr, Herman Cash, and Bobby Frank Cherry. investigations gathered evidence pointing to four suspects: Robert Chambliss, Thomas E. Ware was “shot from ambush”as he and his brother rode their bicycles in a residential suburb, 15 miles north of the city UPI reported: “Two white youths seen riding a motorcycle in the area were sought by police.”į.B.I. Robinson was shot by police, reportedly after they caught him throwing rocks at cars and he ignored orders to halt as he fled down an alley. The Mayor of Birmingham, Albert Boutwell, said: “It is just sickening that a few individuals could commit such a horrible atrocity.” Two more black people were shot to death approximately seven hours following the Sunday morning bombing, 16-year-old Johnny Robinson and 13-year-old Virgil Ware. The explosions increased anger and tension, which were already high in Birmingham. The explosion blew a hole in the church’s rear wall, destroyed the back steps and all but one stained-glass window, which showed Christ leading a group of little children. In the early morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Frank Cash, and Robert Chambliss, members of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group, planted a box of dynamite with a time delay under the steps of the church, near the basement.At about 10:22 a.m., twenty-six children were walking into the basement assembly room to prepare for the sermon entitled “The Love That Forgives,” when the bomb exploded.Four girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Denise McNair (age 11), Carole Robertson (age 14), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14), were killed in the attack, and 22 additional people were injured, one of whom was Addie Mae Collins’ younger sister, Sarah.
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