Bobby Frank Cherry (June 20, 1930 in Mineral Springs, Alabama - November 18, 2004 at Kilby Correctional Facility, Montgomery) was convicted in 2002 for the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, which killed four African-American girls. Cherry was a former truck driver and resident of Texas. is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Coordinates: , Country State County Montgomery Incorporated December 3, 1819 Government - Mayor Bobby Bright Area - City 156. ... The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a racially motivated terrorist incident at 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ...
Cherry was a member of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group. Though Cherry publicly denied his involvement in the 1963 crime, relatives and friends testified that he "bragged" about being part of the bombing and his ex-wife testified, "He said he lit the fuse."[1] United Klans of America was a Ku Klux Klan organization led by Robert Shelton, which peaked popularity in the late 1960s. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ...
During the trial prosecutors "showed the jury a videotape of a white mob beating local civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth."[1] At one point "Prosecutors froze the film as a slender white man with a bulbous nose, wavy hair and a cigarette dangling from his mouth -- unmistakably a young Bobby Frank Cherry -- was seen slamming his fist into the minister's head after pulling what appeared to be a set of brass knuckles from his back pocket."[1] Fred Shuttlesworth (b. ...
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^ abc "Birmingham Bomber Bobby Frank Cherry Dies in Prison at 74", Washington Post, November 19, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-09-18.
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Cherry was convicted in May 2002 in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a gathering place for civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, and was sentenced to life in prison.
Cherry had been suffering from cancer and complained last summer that he was not receiving proper treatment and was being held as a political prisoner.
Cherry denied involvement in the bombing, both publicly and in interviews with investigators, prosecutors reopened the case in 1995 and found five estranged family members and acquaintances who said Mr.
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