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FBI expert links Sixteenth Street blast to high-order explosive
A retired FBI agent testified the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing used a high-order explosive. The trial of Thomas Blanton Jr. centers on the deadly Sept. 15 blast that killed four girls and wounded others. Prosecutors described the device as dynamite or TNT. a later defense dispute concerned videotaped recreations of the explosion.
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Birmingham
Ala
FBI
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Carole Robertson
Charles Killion
Washington
Killion