Thomas Blanton will stay in jail. He’s the last remaining Klansman convicted for Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church bombing which killed four black girls in 1963. Blanton was up for parole Wednesday after serving 15 years of his four life sentences. But the state’s parole board did not free Blanton. Alabama Media Group columnist John Archibald reflects on the hearing and also comments on Alabama’s likely new Speaker of the Alabama House Mac McCutcheon.
What do we Learn from a Church Bomber’s Denied Parole?
Klansmen bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963. Four black girls were killed spurring passage of the Civil Rights Act.