Klansman Convicted of ’63 Blast Hospitalized
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A former Ku Klux Klansman imprisoned for the 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls has been moved to a hospital and is critically ill, prison officials and relatives said.
Bobby Frank Cherry, 74, has had heart problems and diabetes, and relatives said his health had worsened in recent months. He was moved from Holman Prison to Atmore Community Hospital in Birmingham.
In 2002, Cherry was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for the bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
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