"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > At 09:26 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:14 PM > >Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff? > > > > > > > At 07:05 PM 3/6/03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > > > > > > >We'll try to stay serene and calm > > > >When Alabama gets the bomb! > > > > > > > > > > > > We don't already? > > > > > > >Could you imaging George in the school house door with a suitcase nuke? > > Actually, the image which came to mind was the 16th Street Baptist Church . > . . > > (See, frex, <<http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al11.htm>> if > that reference is too obscure.)
Or go watch Spike Lee's documentary "4 Little Girls" ( http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118540 ) several times, and that'll drive it home very well.
Or live here in 1963.
(BTW, I did think of mentioning the film, but instead Googled for the above reference. I've never seen the film, so I'm not sure of how faithfully it sticks to history--assuming, of course, my memory is any more faithful and that it hasn't been tainted by news concerning the Cherry trial which was finally held only a couple of years ago . . . )
That was a pretty nasty bomb.
A few sticks of dynamite, IIRC.
A suitcase nuke (had such a thing existed then) would have certainly taken out most of downtown. The house where we were living at the time was about 5 miles away. The next summer we moved to this house, perhaps three miles further away.
-- Ronn! :)
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