Guilty verdict returned in church bombing trial

Thursday, May 23, 2002

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A racially mixed jury convicted former Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry of murder Wednesday for the 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls and shook the nation's soul.

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