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On this day the bombing took place which killed 4 young African American girls and injured 14 others. Also two boys Virgil Ware age 14 and Johnny Robinson 16 were also killed due to ensuing riots
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Ala's Governor George Wallace sent 500 national guardsmen and 300 state troopers later joinned by 500 police officers and 150 sheriff deputies
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President John F. Kenndy sent out a responding saying he needs the nation to come together to prevent anymore killings
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Dr. Martin Luther King had a press conference in Ala. asking the U.S. Army to step in and take over the city
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2 years later suspects Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton and other Ku Klux Clan members but witnesses were to scared to say anything and a lack of physical evidence so all charges were dropped
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Attorney General Bill Baxley reopens the case
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One year later a retired auto mechanic and former Ku Klux member Robert Chambliss , 73 is indicted by a grand juryon 4 counts of 1st degree murder
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Robert is ocnvicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment
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Robert Dies in prison
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The FBI reopens the case with new evidence
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A grand jury indicts Bobby Frank Cherry and Thomas Blanton on eight counts each of the first degree murder and four of murder with universal malice
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Blanton is found guilty of first degree murder and get 4 life terms
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Bobby Frank Cherry is found guilty Four life terms
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The sixteenth street Bapist Church becomes a national historic landmark
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50 years later all thr four girls who died are given congressional gold medals
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A bronze and steel statue of the four girls is unveiled it's located at The Kelly Ingram Park
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