Monthly Archives: June 2020

16th Street Baptist Church Bomber Thomas Blanton dies in prison

The last surviving member of the Ku Klux Klan convicted in the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four girls has died. Thomas E. Blanton, 82, died of natural causes Friday morning at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Center in Jefferson County. He was found …

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