
Last Chance for Justice
How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers
- 288 pages
- English
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Last Chance for Justice
How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers
About this book
Revealing the story of the reopening of the case of the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing of 1963, this insider's account divulges the ins and outs of the investigation led by detective Ben Herren of the Birmingham Police Department and special agent Bill Fleming of the FBI. For more than a year, they analyzed the original FBI files on the bombing and activities of the Ku Klux Klan, then began a search for new evidence. Their first interviewâwith Klansman Bobby Frank Cherryâbroke open the case, but not in the way they expected. Herren and Fleming unearthed lost evidence and convinced long-silent witnesses to tell their stories. With tenacity, humor, dedication, and some luck, the pair encountered the worst and best in human nature on their journey to find justice, and perhaps closure, for the citizens of Birmingham.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Authorâs Note
- List of Names
- Prologue
- 1 The Mantrap
- 2 Bapbomb
- 3 The Chambliss Case
- 4 Agent Bill Fleming
- 5 Old Files and Rabbit Trails
- 6 The Chambliss Case: Beginnings
- 7 The Trunk Tapes
- 8 Dallas Bound
- 9 Bobby Frank Cherry
- 10 Tipping Point
- 11 Mitch Burns
- 12 Bobby Birdwell
- 13 Michael Wayne Gowins
- 14 Don Luna, âCon of Consâ
- 15 William âBillâ Jackson
- 16 Charles Cagle and âQuick Drawâ Yarbrough
- 17 Partners
- 18 Wyman S. Lee and Pershing Mayfield
- 19 Willadean Brogdon Cherry
- 20 Sanbomb
- 21 Waylene Vaughn and Gloria Ladow
- 22 Tommy Frank Cherry
- 23 Mary Frances Cunningham
- 24 Federal Grand Jury
- 25 Police Files and State Grand Jury
- 26 The Kitchen Tape
- 27 Enhancing the Tapes
- 28 Preparing for Trial
- 29 The Trial of Thomas Blanton
- 30 Blanton Trial: Prosecution Closing Arguments
- 31 Blanton Trial: Defense
- 32 War Room
- 33 Darkest Hours
- 34 The Battle over Cherryâs Mind
- 35 The Trial of Bobby Frank Cherry
- 36 Cherry Trial: Defense
- 37 Cherry Trial: Closing Arguments
- Epilogue: Reflections
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography