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But I think his role has been an offensive one. As a matter of fact, I believe that Governor Wallace has helped to incite the violence that has taken place in Birmingham several days ago, I saw him on television where he was discussing the bombings that had

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taken place in the city of Birmingham. He said there's been so many bombings here and the FBI has been all over the place investigating. They haven't found anybody. Well, this to me seemed to be an open invitation to people to try other bombings. Shortly after his

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remarks, there was the bombing of the church, State troopers. Uh their role has not necessarily been one of helping to stop this in every case has quite to the contrary. The state troopers in Alabama have been among the worst offenders in police brutality. I've seen them

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not only in Birmingham when they terrorized and intimidated the whole negro community beating up negroes at random pushing women down, knocking them down. I saw them in Gadsden Alabama where they were using those electric cattle prods and where they were brutally beaten people whom they arrested.

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Of course there have been many requests now for federal assistance in Birmingham, there was a report out of Washington that the legality of sending additional federal aid would be questionable what it would be. Your view on that. Well, I'd see no question of the legality of

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sending in U. S. Marshals, U. S. Marshals two years ago were sent into Montgomery. They were sent into Birmingham at a later date and I think they can be sent into Birmingham. Now, there'll be no question at all. They are clearly under the jurisdiction of the

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Department of Justice and the Attorney General, and they ought to be sent in. Are the responsible citizen groups in the city of Birmingham, who could work these problems out with some help for that? Well, there are persons of goodwill in Birmingham, not only negro but white

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as well, some of the businessmen, some of the clergy, but they certainly need support from the federal government because they are faced with the terror and the intimidation are the lunatic fringe of the segregationist.