Church bomber Bobby Frank Cherry dies in prison

[quaoar]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-18-bomber-obit_x.htm

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Bobby Frank Cherry, convicted of killing four black girls in a racially motivated bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963, died Thursday in prison. He was 74.

Cherry died at about 3:30 p.m. in the hospital unit at Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.

Cherry was convicted in May 2002 in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a gathering place for civil rights demonstators in Birmingham, and was sentenced to life in prison. It was the deadliest act of the civil rights era.

Cherry was among three former Ku Klux Klan members convicted in the bombing, which killed the four girls as they were preparing to take part in a Sunday morning service.

[Fenris]

1. Yay!

Burn in Hell!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Yes and he got to live most of his life outside that prison

Rot in hell Frank..I hope it was a painful death

[JanMichael]

12. and then the fucker got free medical care

I think he should have been lynched.

And no, I am not kidding. Michael says, "Let the punishment fit the crime."

I really despised him; and furthermore, I despise Condi Rice for knowing a couple of those girls and telling Oprah that that particular event didn't really affect her life.

[Sannum]

13. Condi said that?

What a heartless wench! How could this event not effect you?

I can't stand the people running this country.

[JanMichael]

16. Yes Ma'am she did

or Sir--

Oprah just sat there kind of stunned, then changed the subject. All I remember Condi talking about was how rich her family was in Birmingham, how they lived in the "upscale" black neighborhood, and were so rich that they were allowed in the white people's store.

It was gross.

BTW...I am a Southerner...she really turned me off that day---it was either 1999 or 2000.

[amber dog democrat]

22. I guess she is good at " passing "

the higher toned ones always were.

[Justice]

31. I thought Condi was the daughter of sharecroppers?

She is always described as being the child of dirt poor parents - is this another lie?

[Thtwudbeme]

34. I never heard her describe herself as that

Oprah was the daughter of sharecroppers.

[sr_pacifica]

26. She's been dissociating ever since n/t

[eleny]

3. And now we're doing it in Iraq

With 500 pound bombs. :(

[BamaLefty]

4. I'm Glad He Got To Die In My State

Welcome to hell Bobby! :mad:

[AFSCME girl]

5. Good riddance and I

hope he rots for all eternity!
:mad:

[MountainLaurel]

6. Hope those four little girls

Walked him down on the trip to hell.

[AlCzervik]

7. Too bad someone didn't blow him up.

Rot in hell scumbag.

[slor]

8. May he burn...

in hell.

[Guaranteed]

24. Yup...he's taking the express elevator down. nt

[wicket]

9. Burn in hell asshole!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Minstrel Boy]

10. This bastard spent just the last two and a half years of his life

paying for this. And it's not as if it took 40 years for justice because his guilt was unknown. It was.

"The Birmingham office of the FBI recommended that the four be prosecuted. However, the Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, refused and claimed that civil rights activists themselves bombed the church to gain public sympathy. The FBI initially closed the case in 1968."
http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/Change-Civ%20Rts.html

I hope Cherry remembers to say "I owe you one, man" to Hoover in Hell.

These are the girls he murdered:

[Brand New Tico]

11. Poor Republican Bastard

May he fry in Hell like an Arby's potato cake for all eternity.

[Jax]

14. Scum

worthless piece of waste. Talk about terrorists...

I highly recommend the documentary "4 Little Girls" by Spike Lee about this horrifying bombing.

Jax

[devilgrrl]

15. Don't forget to say hi to Strom when you get to hell!

Bastard!

[wicket]

20. And J. Edgar Hoover!

[amber dog democrat]

21. And Lester Maddox

This was truely a poor excuse for a human being.
Better luck in your next incarnation. Wonder what it will be?

[sr_pacifica]

27. And you can throw in J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant

---Emmett Till's murderers.

[pig.]

29. might oughta reserve a room

for the administration here ...

[Tight_rope]

33. And Ronny too!...Hitler and all the who have front row seats in hell!

[ronnykmarshall]

17. Good!

Fry you worthless bastard, fry!

[bushisanidiot]

18. Are the freepers holding a candle light vigil for him?

since one of their own has passed on..

[stopping by]

23. On this one, DUers and freepers agree

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1283338/posts

(We all probably like ice cream too.)

[President Kerry]

25. wow that was actually kinda refreshing to see....

some repubs are decent people. Misled but decent.

[bushisanidiot]

30. Heh.. the ones who haven't posted are the ones I'm talking about.

sorry that you aren't able to deal with reality, but the KKK is still alive and freepers, not DU'ers are the ones wearing the robes.

[Straight Shooter]

19. From 1963 to 2002, and he spent only two sorry years in prison.

Here's my final good-bye to bad rubbish:

:nopity:

[Justitia]

28. only the good die young huh? -eom

[Tight_rope]

32. May he rot in hell!....And NEVER REST IN PEACE...

I hope those girls haunt his ass.

[noonwitch]

35. The world is now a better place

What he did should never be forgotten.

[bones_7672]

36. Cherry & Arafat, together at last. n/t